{"id":72723,"date":"2014-11-05T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72723\/ekurhuleni-gears-up-for-the-2014-spirit-games\/"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T13:16:46","slug":"ekurhuleni-gears-up-for-the-2014-spirit-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/11\/05\/ekurhuleni-gears-up-for-the-2014-spirit-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekurhuleni gears up for the 2014 Spirit Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all systems go for the 2014 Spirit Games that are set to take place at the Mehlareng Stadium, Rev RTJ Namane Drive, in Tembisa, on Friday (November 7).<\/p>\n<p>This year the challenge promises to be bigger, better and even more fun.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The City of Ekurhuleni hosts this annual event in partnership with the Gauteng Provincial Government, with the aim of allowing hundreds of people living with disabilities to challenge themselves and one another physically and mentally through a variety of games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Spirit Games are meant to not only challenge the physical and mental strengths of the participants, but to also build their character and promote team work,&#8221; said Ekurhuleni spokesman Themba Gadebe.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Participants will go head-to-head in games such as target shooting, ball games, dangling apples, nail and hammer, board games and team-building activities.<\/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='145531305cd5dbeef9921cace9ba05ce'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual spirit games happening this Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72817,"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":[5463,5466,2501,5464,1003,5460,5468,979,5459,5465,2749,5458,2225,5457,1119,1724,5462,5467,4042,5461],"class_list":["post-72723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-ball-games","tag-board-games","tag-city-of-ekurhuleni","tag-dangling-apples","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-ekurhuleni-spokesman-themba-gadebe","tag-gauteng-provincial-government","tag-germiston","tag-mehlareng-stadium","tag-nail-and-hammer","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-rev-rtj-namane-drive","tag-spirit-games","tag-spirit-games-2014","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-target-shooting","tag-team-building","tag-tembisa","tag-themba-gadebe"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["ball games","board games","city of ekurhuleni","dangling apples","Ekurhuleni","Ekurhuleni spokesman Themba Gadebe","Gauteng Provincial Government","germiston","Mehlareng Stadium","nail and hammer","Puleng Sekabate","Rev RTJ Namane Drive","spirit games","Spirit Games 2014","sport","sports","target shooting","team building","tembisa","themba gadebe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72723","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=72723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}