{"id":16962,"date":"2017-04-05T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16962"},"modified":"2017-04-05T12:31:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:31:49","slug":"special-olympics-hits-the-hoops-at-sac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/special-olympics-hits-the-hoops-at-sac\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Olympics hits the hoops at SAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Special Olympics teams from across Ontario converged on St. Andrew\u2019s College last week for some serious court time.<br \/>\nThe Aurora Dunks, the town\u2019s representative team in Special Olympics basketball, played hosts for the annual Mary Matthews Basketball Tournament, featuring teams from across four divisions.<br \/>\nWith players ranging in age from 18 to 38, Aurora took on teams in the tournament\u2019s C division and come out with a bronze medal performance.<br \/>\nTwo wins over the team from Collingwood, by scores of 16 \u2013 14 and 14 \u2013 12, was enough to secure them their third-place finish.<br \/>\nPlaying in a handful of tournaments throughout the basketball season, the Dunks, who currently sport thirteen players, are always looking out for more athletes.<br \/>\nMore information can be<br \/>\nfound at www.aurora.specialolympics.ontario.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Olympics teams from across Ontario converged on St. Andrew\u2019s College last week for some serious court time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-04-06-10.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}