{"id":18784,"date":"2021-08-07T09:55:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T09:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=18784"},"modified":"2021-08-07T09:55:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T09:55:44","slug":"70-thousand-rubber-ducks-were-thrown-into-the-river-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=18784","title":{"rendered":"70 Thousand Rubber Ducks Were Thrown Into the River in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the American city of Chicago, 70 thousand yellow rubber ducks were thrown into the river for the Chicago Ducky Derby 2021 competition. Anyone could participate in the event by purchasing a duck for five dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; August 07, 2021 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?cat=23\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Duck Event was organized by Special <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=18748\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"18748\">Olympics <\/a>Illinois, a nonprofit charity dedicated to competing athletes with intellectual disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to launch all the ducks, a truck was needed. After the end of the event, all toy rubber products were fished out of the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organizers managed to collect more than 310 thousand dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chicago hosts &#039;Ducky Derby&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBxpk2y58z8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Read Also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=18416\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"18416\">In Zaporizhzhia Brought Down the Man on the Electric Scooter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Source<\/span>: <span style=\"color:#faed00\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Ukrgate<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the American city of Chicago, 70 thousand yellow rubber ducks were thrown into the river for the Chicago Ducky Derby 2021 competition. Anyone could participate in the event by purchasing a duck for five dollars. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; August 07, 2021 \u2013 Video The Duck Event was organized by Special Olympics Illinois, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[6134,7732,8261,8262,2399,1052],"class_list":["post-18784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-video","tag-charity","tag-chicago","tag-river","tag-rubber-ducks","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}