{"id":10612,"date":"2020-07-31T18:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=10612"},"modified":"2020-07-31T18:22:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:22:52","slug":"serena-williams-helps-to-donate-4-25-million-face-masks-to-schools-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/31\/serena-williams-helps-to-donate-4-25-million-face-masks-to-schools-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams helps to donate 4.25 million face masks to schools in need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>(CNN)<\/strong> Serena Williams is helping to donate 4.25 million face masks to schools in the US as children prepare to head back to classrooms in the coming months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 23-grand-slam champion has teamed up with t-shirt company Bella+Canvas, the National School Board Association and Scholastic in order to provide the face coverings to schools in need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project will also seek to provide educational materials to 54 million children across 115,000 schools in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful to be able to help educate our schools about this resource, and to be given the opportunity to serve so many students,&#8221; she wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">US Open<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams announced she is excited to play at this year&#8217;s US Open after there were doubts the 38-year-old would participate in New York later next month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strict measures have been proposed by the US Tennis Association to enable the grand slam to take place, including the proposal of creating a bubble for players at an airport hotel outside Manhattan &#8212; where most players stay &#8212; and restricting entourage numbers to just one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams&#8217; coach Patrick Mouratoglou had told CNN he doubted she would play in New York if her family and daughter, Olympia, couldn&#8217;t be there with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another grand slam victory, the last of which she won at the 2017 Australian Open, would see Williams tie with Margaret Court&#8217;s all-time record of 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) Serena Williams is helping to donate 4.25 million face masks to schools in the US as children prepare to head back to classrooms in the coming months. The 23-grand-slam champion has teamed up with t-shirt company Bella+Canvas, the National School Board Association and Scholastic in order to provide the face coverings to schools in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Serena-Williams-has-taken-to-the-court-with-her-daughter-Olympia-with-competitions-on-hold.jpg?fit=780%2C438&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}