{"id":120729,"date":"2016-05-08T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120729\/fun-games-competition-coming-up-for-children\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T09:57:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T07:57:42","slug":"fun-games-competition-coming-up-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/05\/08\/fun-games-competition-coming-up-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun games competition coming up for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to nurture the development of children\u2019s fine-motor abilities and athletic skills, the metro will host this year\u2019s instalment of the Ekurhuleni Kiddies Games, at Mehlareng Stadium, in Tembisa.<\/p>\n<p>The event is set to take place on May 14, from 9am to 3pm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Over 1 000 children between the ages of four and six years will participate in the games, with a total of 45 nursery schools per region (South, North and East) registered to take part.<\/p>\n<p>Activities on the day will include ball throwing, ball hopping, ring throwing, ball kicking, ball dribbling, cycling and balancing acts.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Ekurhuleni Kiddies Games commenced with a competition among pre-schools from across the metro, at Customer Care Area level, and then advanced to regional games, which will now culminate in the metro-wide games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120674\/reporting-metro-complaints-to-the-gcn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reporting metro complaints to the GCN<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120349\/road-still-a-mess\/\" target=\"_blank\">Road still a mess<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='27b44339d7b7c39a69c700576d4860ab'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s all systems go for the 2016 Ekurhuleni Kiddies Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":120774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1003,3630,979,969,2734,1002,1004,1119],"class_list":["post-120729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-ekurhuleni-kiddies-games","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","ekurhuleni kiddies games","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}