{"id":249204,"date":"2020-03-19T21:33:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T01:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249204"},"modified":"2020-03-19T21:33:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T01:33:38","slug":"grammy-winning-artist-lecrae-distributes-wash-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/19\/grammy-winning-artist-lecrae-distributes-wash-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy winning artist Lecrae distributes wash stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249205\" style=\"width: 5075px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lecrae_37969935145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249205\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lecrae_37969935145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5075\" height=\"3383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lecrae_37969935145.jpg 5075w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lecrae_37969935145-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lecrae_37969935145-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lecrae_37969935145-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5075px) 100vw, 5075px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Lecrae performing at the Phoenix Concert Theatre on December 3, 2017. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=77584035\">Photo by Anton Mak, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Grammy-winning hip hop recording artist Lecrae joined forces with non-profit organization Thursday to assemble and distribute portable hand-washing stations throughout Atlanta in areas with a high density of homeless people.<\/p>\n<p>Lecrae Moore and volunteers with Love Beyond Walls assembled 15 wash stations, filled them with water and hand sanitizer and loaded them onto a truck for distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Lecrae, winner of the Best Gospel Album Grammy award in 2013 for his album \u201cGravity,\u201d rolled up his sleeves and went to work early, his mind set on helping the less fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to continue doing the same stuff that I have been doing just in any city I&#8217;ve lived in and that&#8217;s just being close to the disenfranchised and the marginalized communities,\u201d Lecrae said.<\/p>\n<p>Terence Lester, founder of Love Beyond Walls, told the AP that disenfranchised people on the streets are in need as the new coronavirus spreads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, whether people like it or not, man we&#8217;re out here doing our part to ensure that people have access to this basic necessity during this pandemic,\u201d Lester said.<\/p>\n<p>For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough.<\/p>\n<p>For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of people recover from the new virus.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organization, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe illness may take three to six weeks to recover.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Grammy-winning hip hop recording artist Lecrae joined forces with non-profit organization Thursday to assemble and distribute portable hand-washing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-ron-harris","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249204","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249206,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249204\/revisions\/249206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}