{"id":656,"date":"2011-07-18T18:21:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T23:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2011-07-19T00:21:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T05:21:13","slug":"wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheels!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110718165252.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-658\" title=\"20110718165252\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110718165252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>This has been in the works for quite a few months now, but we finally have some wheels to transport Chris!!!  This is tremendously important:  today, for example, Chris missed all therapy sessions because RIOSA&#8217;s contracted transport company forgot to bring wheelchair tie downs for their vehicle (wtf?!?).<\/p>\n<p>I picked up the van &#8211; a 2011 Ford E-150 &#8220;E1E&#8221; \/ Cargo &#8211; this afternoon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leifjohnsonford.com\/fleet-staff.html\">Leif Johnson Ford<\/a> in Austin;\u00a0 Bill Seibert (photo) delivered the vehicle.\u00a0 His partner, Glenn Curby, in LJF commercial\/fleet sales helped us out on the chassis with Ford, and Rich Cole at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilityworks.com\/\">MobilityWorks<\/a> in Akron, Ohio, did the commercial ADA van conversion portion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_657\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110718141308.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-657\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-657 \" title=\"20110718141308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110718141308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110718141308.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/20110718141308-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Seibert with Leif Johnson Ford Fleet Sales<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen countless MobilityWorks Ford conversions driving around San Antonio, and I believe Capital Metro recently acquired some of the same units for <em>MetroAccess<\/em> in Austin.\u00a0 These commercial ADA vans are MUCH cheaper than functionally-equivalent &#8220;retail&#8221; wheelchair vans.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, end of the sales pitch &#8211; I&#8217;m relieved that we have wheels for Chris.\u00a0 This opens up some interesting new options for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been in the works for quite a few months now, but we finally have some wheels to transport Chris!!! This is tremendously important: today, for example, Chris missed all therapy sessions because RIOSA&#8217;s contracted transport company forgot to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/wheels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}