{"id":58760,"date":"2020-04-08T07:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58760"},"modified":"2020-04-08T07:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T07:02:14","slug":"this-boy-scout-made-ear-guards-for-healthcare-providers-that-make-wearing-masks-for-prolonged-period-less-painful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/04\/08\/this-boy-scout-made-ear-guards-for-healthcare-providers-that-make-wearing-masks-for-prolonged-period-less-painful\/","title":{"rendered":"This boy scout made &#8216;ear guards&#8217; for healthcare providers that make wearing masks for prolonged period less painful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To make sure that healthcare workers working tirelessly on the frontlines of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic do not have sore ears at the end of their long shifts, Quinn Roney, a Canadian boy scout, has been using his 3D printer to create &#8220;ear guards&#8221; for them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Quinn answered a request from the local hospitals for help with creating &#8216;ear guards&#8217; to help take the pressure off health care workers ears from wearing masks all day,&#8221; his mother, Heather Roney said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He got busy on his 3D printer and has been turning out dozens of ear guards to donate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ear guards stretch across the back of the head and secure the straps of surgical masks, so they don&#8217;t pull on the ears and create tension. The strap also includes several rigged pieces across the length to allow healthcare workers to adjust it to fit perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Heather&#8217;s post has been well received with over 277,000 shares.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3727\/Boy-Scout-Makes-039-Ear-Guards-039-For-Health-Care-Workers-To-Ease-The-Pain-Caused-By-Wearing-Masks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3727\/Boy-Scout-Makes-039-Ear-Guards-039-For-Health-Care-Workers-To-Ease-The-Pain-Caused-By-Wearing-Masks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make sure that healthcare workers working tirelessly on the frontlines of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic do not have sore ears at the end of their long shifts, Quinn Roney, a Canadian boy scout, has been using his 3D printer to create &#8220;ear guards&#8221; for them. &#8220;Quinn answered a request from the local hospitals for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}