{"id":1024,"date":"2021-02-07T21:26:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2021-02-07T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T21:27:08","slug":"1024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Athlete Profile on Peter Parsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"506qq\" data-offset-key=\"fo8o7-0-0\">\n<h3 data-offset-key=\"fo8o7-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fo8o7-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">A fantastic<\/span><\/span><span spellcheck=\"false\" data-offset-key=\"fo8o7-1-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fo8o7-1-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">\u00a0Chronicle Herald<\/span><\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"fo8o7-2-0\"><span data-text=\"true\"> profile of stellar Nova Scotian goalball athlete, and Blind Sports NS Chair, Peter Parsons! We love seeing parasport and its athletes getting mainstream attention like this.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechronicleherald.ca\/sports\/regional-sports\/athlete-profile-halifax-resident-raising-the-sports-bar-despite-challenges-548515\/\" target=\"_blank\">ATHLETE PROFILE: Halifax resident raising the sports bar, despite challenges<\/a><\/h3>\n<div data-offset-key=\"fo8o7-0-0\"><\/div>\n<h4 data-offset-key=\"fo8o7-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fo8o7-2-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">\u201cI used to think, when I was 40, oh, maybe I have two years left, maybe I have five years left,\u201d says Parsons. \u201cBut I&#8217;ve stopped doing that. I think I was putting a time limit on myself because that\u2019s kind of what the norm is. But now I\u2019m 45 and I&#8217;ve just decided to stop saying that. I\u2019ll basically keep playing until I don\u2019t enjoy it anymore.\u201d &#8211; Peter <\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"fo8o7-3-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">Parsons<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<div data-offset-key=\"88rjd-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"88rjd-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic\u00a0Chronicle Herald profile of stellar Nova Scotian goalball athlete, and Blind Sports NS Chair, Peter Parsons! We love seeing parasport and its athletes getting mainstream attention like this. ATHLETE PROFILE: Halifax resident raising the sports bar, despite challenges \u201cI used to think, when I was 40, oh, maybe I have two years left, maybe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=1024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Athlete Profile on Peter Parsons<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}