{"id":132917,"date":"2016-09-12T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132917\/local-athletes-have-a-new-sponsor\/"},"modified":"2016-09-12T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:02:44","slug":"local-athletes-have-a-new-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/09\/12\/local-athletes-have-a-new-sponsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Local athletes have a new sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pick n Pay Primrose has come on board as a sponsor for two of Germiston\u2019s top performing athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Gilbert and Pedro Aaron will receive sponsorships every month.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Gilbert is a senior long jump and hurdles athlete, while Aaron is a junior long jump athlete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is really great for the athletes to receive such sponsorships, we are truly grateful,\u201d said the athletes\u2019 coach, Stephan\u00e8 Kotze.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is humbling when you see big companies such as Pick n Pay help our local champions, I hope others, even individuals get encouraged to do the same for our youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA big thank you also goes to Pick n Pay Primrose\u2019s store manager, Chris Ndlovu, who made all this possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very thankful for the sponsorship,\u201d added Gilbert.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other sports articles you might want to read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132383\/elderly-get-fit\/\">Elderly get fit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131589\/a-different-look-at-sports\/\">A different look at sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131007\/cross-country-tests-athletes\/\">Cross-country tests athletes<\/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='241979ff76fea17605439950c7eb9377'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston\u2019s athletes are thrilled to have Pick n Pay Primrose as their new sponsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":132918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[2504,7919,1126,12283,1106,979,969,2280,5306,2653,9356,2438,10073,2749,8669],"class_list":["post-132917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-athlete","tag-athletes","tag-athletics","tag-chris-ndlovu","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-hurdles","tag-kayla-gilbert","tag-long-jump","tag-pedro-aaron","tag-pick-n-pay","tag-pick-n-pay-primrose","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-stephane-kotze"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["athlete","athletes","athletics","Chris Ndlovu","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","hurdles","Kayla Gilbert","long jump","Pedro Aaron","pick n pay","pick n pay primrose","Puleng Sekabate","Stephan\u00e9 Kotz\u00e9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132917","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=132917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}