{"id":33520,"date":"2013-12-03T07:48:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=33520"},"modified":"2013-12-03T07:48:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:48:34","slug":"uj-basketball-player-surprised-by-mom-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=33520","title":{"rendered":"UJ Basketball Player Surprised By Mom, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KODIAK, Alaska (AP) &#8211; A Kodiak woman carried out a well-kept secret by showing up unannounced in Minnesota for a reunion with her daughter, a sophomore at the University of Jamestown in North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Sina Timu surprised her daughter, Puni, an hour before the tipoff of her junior varsity women&#8217;s basketball game at Minnesota State University-Moorhead. The Nov. 21 reunion was the first time mother and daughter had seen each other in almost a year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>The Kodiak Daily Mirror says the visit was made possible by Puni&#8217;s teammates, who raised the money to fly Sina Timu to Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Puni, who graduated from Kodiak High School in 2012, says she sensed something was going to happen the evening of her mother&#8217;s arrival. But she couldn&#8217;t figure out what it could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KODIAK, Alaska (AP) &#8211; A Kodiak woman carried out a well-kept secret by showing up unannounced in Minnesota for a reunion with her daughter, a sophomore at the University of Jamestown in North Dakota. Sina Timu surprised her daughter, Puni, an hour before the tipoff of her junior varsity women&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33521,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33520\/revisions\/33521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}