{"id":625353,"date":"2023-02-03T01:11:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T01:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=625353"},"modified":"2023-02-13T01:14:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T01:14:22","slug":"tiktok-leads-to-20k-in-donations-for-sd-woman-needing-wheelchair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/tiktok-leads-to-20k-in-donations-for-sd-woman-needing-wheelchair","title":{"rendered":"TikTok leads to $20K in donations for SD woman needing wheelchair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that cannot go unnoticed about Danika Whitsett is her laugh, and the fact that she is in a wheelchair. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want people to look at me differently &#8212; even though they already do,&#8221; said Whitsett, when asked about her positive attitude. However, even the most positive people need help sometimes. Whitsett says she was in a car accident in 2018 in Arizona. She spent several days in a coma and was paralyzed from the waist down. She says she has been using the same wheelchair ever since the accident. &#8220;It could snap at any moment,&#8221; said Whitsett, referring to her wheelchair. She has replaced parts here and there herself, using lawn mower tires and holding the backrest together with a single screw. Whitsett posted a TikTok and created a GoFundMe , asking the internet for help buying a new wheelchair. A new wheelchair will cost her roughly $5,200 after insurance. &#8220;Sometimes you can&#8217;t do it alone,&#8221; said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danika Whitsett was in a car accident in 2018, leaving her paralyzed. Five years later, she&#8217;s in desperate need of a new wheelchair. She&#8217;s been using the same one since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}