{"id":121724,"date":"2014-02-18T00:22:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T07:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-high-junior-organizing-heart-health-fundraiser-2\/"},"modified":"2014-02-18T00:22:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T07:22:38","slug":"mancos-high-junior-organizing-heart-health-fundraiser-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-high-junior-organizing-heart-health-fundraiser-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos High junior organizing heart-health fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Willburn<\/span>du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Willburn needed surgery to cure her supraventricular tachycardia, a condition that caused her heart to beat up to 235 beats per minute. She used to experience the symptoms when she was sitting still and exercising.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes you really dizzy and shaky,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The condition prevented her from playing some sports. Doctors went in through her neck to burn nerves in her heart that were sending the electrical signals that were causing her heart to race, she said.<\/p>\n

Willburn\u2019s family \u2013 including her father, uncles and grandfather \u2013 have also struggled with heart disease, and those experiences motivated her to organize a Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser at the Mancos Elementary School.<\/p>\n

Willburn kicked off the fundraiser with an assembly for the elementary students on Thursday. The students will complete the fundraiser by jumping rope during gym class on Feb. 26 and 27.<\/p>\n

The fundraisers take place nationwide and help students learn about a healthful lifestyle.<\/p>\n

Willburn hopes the students will recognize how important it is to be active so they can have a healthy heart.<\/p>\n

She was inspired to get involved organizing the fundraiser and taking a lead role in the Millwood Follies after she attended a Hugh O\u2019Brian Youth Leadership event in Denver.<\/p>\n

She also wanted to bring back Jump Rope for Heart at the elementary school after a hiatus of six or seven years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always loved it when I was a kid,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

mshinn@cortezjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Willburndu1-i-syn Willburn needed surgery to cure her supraventricular tachycardia, a condition that caused her heart to beat up to 235 beats per minute. She used to experience the symptoms when she was sitting still and exercising. \u201cIt makes you really dizzy and shaky,\u201d she said. The condition prevented her from playing some sports. Doctors went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[2665,961],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-121724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-health-organisations","tag-mancos-elementary-school"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121724"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=121724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}