{"id":60956,"date":"2014-06-04T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/60956\/ekurhuleni-childrens-games-a-success\/"},"modified":"2014-06-04T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T07:08:07","slug":"ekurhuleni-childrens-games-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/06\/04\/ekurhuleni-childrens-games-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekurhuleni children&#8217;s games a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekurhuleni Kiddies Games 2014 have come and gone, but fond memories of the fun and games remain.<\/p>\n<p>The event was recently held at the Reiger Park Stadium, where five and six-year-olds from all corners of the city and the East Rand competed in various disciplines.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The games are aimed at introducing pre-school children to the basics of sport before they go on to primary school.<\/p>\n<p>The children&#8217;s physical strength was tested through popular games such as ball dribbling and kicking, cycling, ball hopping and ring throwing.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Jumping castles, colouring books, banner parades, clowns and dancing with Mrs Drop, the city&#8217;s Blue Drop mascot, were additions to the fun activities this year.<\/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='826bf8b8fec6cdb3647104c5f2540f7f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning the basics of sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":60957,"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":[2576,1012,1003,3630,979,2749,3631,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-60956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-cycling","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-ekurhuleni-kiddies-games","tag-germiston","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-reiger-park-stadium","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["cycling","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","ekurhuleni kiddies games","germiston","Puleng Sekabate","Reiger Park Stadium","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60956","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=60956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}