{"id":48463,"date":"2014-06-23T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=48463"},"modified":"2014-06-24T19:15:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T00:15:55","slug":"n-d-special-olympians-take-metals-at-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=48463","title":{"rendered":"ND Special Olympians Take Metals At Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/specialolympicsND.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8770\" alt=\"specialolympicsND\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/specialolympicsND.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s Special Olympics team is taking home 25 medals after a week of competition at the USA Games in New Jersey.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The \u00a0team won 10 gold, 4 silver and 11 bronze medals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some of the athletes set personal best records throughout the week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 About 3,500 athletes are descended on New Jersey for the games, along with 10,000 volunteers and 1,000 coaches.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Special Olympics traces its history to the 1960s and has mostly been a state-level staple in the U.S. The 2014 USA Games are the third nationwide competition, following previous U.S. games hosted by Iowa in 2006 and Nebraska in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s Special Olympics team is taking home 25 medals after a week of competition at the USA Games in New Jersey. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The \u00a0team won 10 gold, 4 silver and 11 bronze medals. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some of the athletes set personal best records throughout the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48466,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48463\/revisions\/48466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}