{"id":142799,"date":"2017-12-29T04:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T09:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=142799"},"modified":"2017-12-29T04:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T09:27:41","slug":"gardo-versoza-becomes-a-santa-claus-to-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/29\/gardo-versoza-becomes-a-santa-claus-to-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardo Versoza becomes a Santa Claus to a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142848\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/26112160_162595611168992_8717682282966596402_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142848\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/26112160_162595611168992_8717682282966596402_n.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: Gardo Versoza\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/26112160_162595611168992_8717682282966596402_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/26112160_162595611168992_8717682282966596402_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/26112160_162595611168992_8717682282966596402_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/26112160_162595611168992_8717682282966596402_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Gardo Versoza (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=162595611168992&amp;set=ms.c.eJwlzdsNADEMAsGOTuAHMf03dkr8OVohqGi3SGrs~_PgcJmVErSt0Jvs41~_moRpS3IyHyTNRZc~%3Bo6NWsY16W3L7t5Lby~%3BbADVoRn9KlUc8g~-~-.bps.a.134994140595806.1073741831.100022556624768&amp;type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gardo.versoza.92123\">Gardo Versoza\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the yuletide season arrives, it is quite easy to make out the details of a fat old man in a red suit, ringing ho ho ho, with a sack of gifts hanging on his shoulder, and while his left hand strokes his beard. He is here for the kids, not for the naughty but only for the nice.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Santa Claus is not the only one who can give gifts to children in Christmas. A renowned actor, Gardo Versoza, chooses to be a Santa Claus of his own \u2013 without the suit and beard.<\/p>\n<p>Through Cupcake Bikers 143, an organization he founded, he was able to make an 11-month-old boy\u2019s Christmas really merry.<\/p>\n<p>Troy Terrence Legaspi has cervical meningoceles \u2013 which are \u201ctethering lesions of the spinal cord that may cause biomechanical injury with repetitive flexion-extension movements of the head and spine\u201d according to the Human Pathology website.<\/p>\n<p>At such a young age and with such a small and fragile body, Troy has to undergo an operation to prevent an infection and neurological deterioration.<\/p>\n<p>Through charity bike rides by Cupcake Bikers 143, Gardo and its members were able to successfully raise funds for Troy.<\/p>\n<p>Gardo made his visit to Troy on the 24<sup>th<\/sup>, as he captioned on an Instagram post, \u201c<em>Maligayang pasko po sa inyong pamillya lalo na kay <\/em>Baby Troy <em>mula po sa<\/em> (Merry Christmas to your family especially to Baby Troy from) Cupcake Bikers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the charity raise money, but their deed was able to give a greater gift and that is the gift of a better life for a child.<\/p>\n<p>The over 6,000-member-organization has raised funds not only for sick children like Troy, but has also given scholarships to those children with parents who could not provide for their education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the yuletide season arrives, it is quite easy to make out the details of a fat old man in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":142848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[41129,41128,41130],"class_list":["post-142799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","tag-cupcake-bikers-143","tag-gardo-versoza","tag-troy-terrence-legaspi","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}