{"id":311517,"date":"2026-08-01T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311517\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:09:07","slug":"local-nonprofit-helps-children-get-eye-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311517\/","title":{"rendered":"Local nonprofit helps children get eye exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August is National Eye Exam Month.<\/p>\n<p>The local nonprofit Helen Keller International aims to help underserved youth in New York and elsewhere get their eyesight screened.<\/p>\n<p>Tonya Suer, the regional program manager for the vision program at Helen Keller International, joins &#8220;Weekends on 1&#8221; to discuss it.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August is National Eye Exam Month. The local nonprofit Helen Keller International aims to help underserved youth in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[25,9,24,12,63,5252,134,136,135,27,200,4181],"class_list":["post-311517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-rocco-vertuccio","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}