{"id":10366,"date":"2019-06-07T17:15:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10366"},"modified":"2019-06-07T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:15:37","slug":"senior-citizens-participate-in-los-fresnos-sit-and-fit-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10366","title":{"rendered":"Senior Citizens Participate in Los Fresnos Sit and Fit Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10355\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10355\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10355\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/002.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/002-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/002-405x241.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior citizens exercise as they follow instructions from Melanie Vasquez, left. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Every Tuesday and Thursday of the week, a group of senior citizens get together in the City of Los Fresnos Community Room<br \/>\nThey play Mexican Chalupa, or a lottery game that involves the drawing of characters of all sorts.<\/p>\n<p>After an hour or so of the lottery-like game, the group moves to another section of the room where each of them sits on a metal chair and begins listening to Melanie Vasquez.<\/p>\n<p>She is a fitness instructor and directs the group to follow her moves as music starts playing out of a loudspeaker.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the elder citizens imitate Vasquez moves no matter what the music genre was.<\/p>\n<p>After the hour-long exercise session, the group moves to the same area they started earlier and each one is served a healthy meal.<\/p>\n<p>Vasquez said the activities are part of the city\u2019s outreach program created several years ago to benefit the community.<\/p>\n<p>The program is called Seniors Sit and Fit and it\u2019s geared towards those who are 60 years of age and older.<\/p>\n<p>The participants get free transportation to and from LOCC and meals provided by Amigos del Valle.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the program or other city-sponsored health and fitness classes please call 956-233-5768.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Every Tuesday and Thursday of the week, a group of senior citizens get together in the City of Los Fresnos Community Room They play Mexican Chalupa, or a lottery game that involves the drawing of characters of all sorts. After an hour or so of the lottery-like game, the group moves to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10367,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions\/10367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}