{"id":1303,"date":"2017-12-10T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T14:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2017-12-10T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T14:01:55","slug":"donation-of-merlin-magnifier-to-local-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Donation of Merlin Magnifier to local resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moultonborough Lions Club President Mark Cotrupi (left) presented a Merlin\u00a0Desktop Electronic Magnifier\u00a0to Ashlee Pigott and her mother, Stephanie recently.\u00a0 Ashley, who is vision impaired, is planning on using the device at home to help her with her homework.\u00a0 The magnifier allows people with issues such as<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>low vision, macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma and cataracts to read and write more easily, especially in low light conditions.\u00a0 It was donated to the Lions just recently by a widow whose husband used it during his later years.\u00a0 &#8220;We are so grateful for donations such as this, especially when we can put it to such good use here in our community&#8221;, said Cotrupi.\u00a0 &#8220;In that same vein, we very much appreciate the community&#8217;s support in donating their old glasses through our Lions Recycle For Sight program.\u00a0 Your generosity in providing us your old glasses helps those less fortunate around the world to see and have a brighter future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0886-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1295 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0886-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0886-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0886-1-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0886-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moultonborough Lions Club President Mark Cotrupi (left) presented a Merlin\u00a0Desktop Electronic Magnifier\u00a0to Ashlee Pigott and her mother, Stephanie recently.\u00a0 Ashley, who is vision impaired, is planning on using the device at home to help her with her homework.\u00a0 The magnifier &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/?p=1303\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moultonboroughlions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}