{"id":843,"date":"2022-02-07T12:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=843"},"modified":"2022-02-07T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:06:36","slug":"perseverance-and-the-paralympics-celebrating-athletes-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/perseverance-and-the-paralympics-celebrating-athletes-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance and the Paralympics: Celebrating Athletes with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we have been discussing the Paralympics. The Paralympics are a special event where Olympians with disabilities or impairments can compete. The first Paralympics were held in 1960. These Paralympics represent the over 1.2 billion people who are part of the disabled community.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to celebrate athletes from different backgrounds; often, these athletes face discrimination and are not celebrated as much as they should be!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below to learn the story behind the Amputee Soccer Club in Sierra Leone (a country in Africa):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Incredible Athletes of Sierra Leone\u2019s Amputee Soccer Club\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_zYYRP2KKa4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we have been discussing the Paralympics. The Paralympics are a special event where Olympians with disabilities or impairments can compete. The first Paralympics were held in 1960. These Paralympics represent the over 1.2 billion people who are part of the disabled community. It is important to celebrate athletes from different backgrounds; often, these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/perseverance-and-the-paralympics-celebrating-athletes-with-disabilities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perseverance and the Paralympics: Celebrating Athletes with Disabilities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}