{"id":10560,"date":"2021-05-11T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=10560"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:33:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:33:47","slug":"using-tyres-this-indian-architect-has-built-250-plus-playgrounds-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=10560","title":{"rendered":"**  Using tyres, this Indian architect has built 250-plus playgrounds across the country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pooja Rai\u2019s NGO, Anthill Creations, builds sustainable playgrounds for kids<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two little boys were engrossed in a game of badminton: their slippers served as racquets. Nearby, two other kids played atop broken sewer pipes. This sight made Pooja Rai think: \u201cPlaygrounds should not be a luxury. It is something every child should have access to for free.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that is when the then 23-year-old student of architecture in IIT-Kharagpur made her first playground for children within her institution\u2019s campus, using colourful tyres from cars and two wheelers re-purposed as play equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pooja Rai\u2019s NGO, Anthill Creations, builds sustainable playgrounds for kids Two little boys were engrossed in a game of badminton: their slippers served as racquets. Nearby, two other kids played atop broken sewer pipes. This sight made Pooja Rai think: \u201cPlaygrounds should not be a luxury. It is something every child should have access to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=10560\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Using tyres, this Indian architect has built 250-plus playgrounds across the country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,12,1,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-education","category-green-products","category-sports","category-uncategorized","category-women-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10561,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560\/revisions\/10561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}