{"id":96827,"date":"2015-08-13T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/96827\/elderly-athletes-to-compete-at-regional-active-ageing-games\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T10:16:29","slug":"elderly-athletes-to-compete-at-regional-active-ageing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/08\/13\/elderly-athletes-to-compete-at-regional-active-ageing-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly athletes to compete at regional Active Ageing Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The regional phase of the 2015 Active Ageing Games continues across Gauteng and the central, eastern and northern regions of the province are next, with each region\u2019s games scheduled for Friday (August 14).<\/p>\n<p>Elderly people from the age of 60 and above will compete in a number of sporting activities, including Jukskei, soccer, duck walk, ring the stick and track and field athletics, for selection to represent their regions at the Provincial Active Ageing Games, which are set to take place later this year.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Hosted by the Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, the Active Ageing Games is an initiative of the provincial government and is aimed at encouraging a culture of healthy living among the elderly through active participation in sporting and recreational activities.<\/p>\n<p>The Ekurhuleni region\u2019s games will take place from 10am to 4pm at the Germiston Stadium in Delville.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/96771\/play-golf-and-help-needy-children-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Play golf and help needy children<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/96395\/ready-for-the-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ready for 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='f05eb29453c61a9f79b362e2e44a354b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encouraging the elderly to keep fit and healthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":96833,"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":[8162,1585,1126,8164,1123,1334,8163,979,969,2734,2491,1119],"class_list":["post-96827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-active-agening-games","tag-arts","tag-athletics","tag-culture-and-recreation","tag-delville","tag-elderly","tag-gauteng-department-of-sport","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-pensioners","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["active agening games","arts","athletics","culture and recreation","Delville","elderly.","gauteng department of sport","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","pensioners","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96827","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=96827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}