{"id":73246,"date":"2014-11-12T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/73246\/spirit-games-a-great-success\/"},"modified":"2014-11-12T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T08:59:00","slug":"spirit-games-a-great-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/11\/12\/spirit-games-a-great-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Games a great success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The metro, hosted its eighth instalment of the Spirit Games for people living with disabilities, last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;November 3 to December 3 is marked as National Disability Rights Awareness month,&#8221; said the metro&#8217;s communications and brand management&#8217;s spokesman, Themba Gadebe.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Over 600 people gathered at the Mehlareng Stadium in Tembisa to enjoy the fun and games.<\/p>\n<p>The games were presented in a lightly competitive environment with the aim of promoting self-acceptance and holistic wellness among people living with disabilities.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>All those who took part in the games received gold medals for participation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the participants will be selected to form a team that will represent Ekurhuleni at the Provincial Games which are scheduled to take place at the Charl Baard Stadium, in Brakpan, on November 21,&#8221; added Gadebe.<\/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='1f4d4ad51ab1d2ec9da28bc81e85edc6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical and mental wellness tested at Ekurhuleni spirit games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":73247,"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":[5560,5386,1003,5557,5460,979,5459,5559,5558,2749,2225,1119,1724,4042,5461],"class_list":["post-73246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-communications-and-brand-managements-spokesman-themba-gadebe","tag-communications-and-brand-managements-spokesman-themba-radebe","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-ekurhuleni-spirit-games","tag-ekurhuleni-spokesman-themba-gadebe","tag-germiston","tag-mehlareng-stadium","tag-national-disability-rights-awareness-month","tag-provincial-games","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-spirit-games","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-tembisa","tag-themba-gadebe"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["communications and brand management's spokesman Themba Gadebe","communications and brand management's spokesman Themba Radebe","Ekurhuleni","Ekurhuleni spirit games","Ekurhuleni spokesman Themba Gadebe","germiston","Mehlareng Stadium","National Disability Rights Awareness month","Provincial Games","Puleng Sekabate","spirit games","sport","sports","tembisa","themba gadebe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73246","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=73246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}