{"id":149181,"date":"2017-04-13T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/149181\/training-hard-for-champs\/"},"modified":"2017-04-13T13:15:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T11:15:34","slug":"training-hard-for-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2017\/04\/13\/training-hard-for-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Training hard for champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two members from Thunder MMA, in Elsburg, are training to compete at the Extreme Warrior Championships (EWC).<\/p>\n<p>The championships will be held at the Alberton Wrestling Club on April 22.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Gianno Waller (16) and Cobus Pelser (19) are eagerly waiting for their mixed martial arts (MMA) debuts at the EWC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Also read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/149127\/blow-by-blow-action-for-young-boxers\/\">Blow-by-blow action for young boxers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148469\/fighters-set-to-take-to-the-ring\/\">Fighters set to take to the ring<\/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='8385ec00ae5f190857a9b484eb74bfca'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young fighters from Thunder MMA, in Elsburg, are eagerly waiting to compete at the Extreme Warrior Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":149182,"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":[14286,8963,14285,6814,4780,1106,979,969,2898,2995,2749,13774],"class_list":["post-149181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-alberton-wrestling-club","tag-ewc","tag-extreme-warrior-championships","tag-fighter","tag-fighters","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-thunder-mma"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Alberton Wrestling Club","EWC","Extreme Warrior Championships","fighter","fighters","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","mixed martial arts","mma","Puleng Sekabate","Thunder MMA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149181","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=149181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}