{"id":257,"date":"2016-06-09T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=257"},"modified":"2016-06-09T18:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:20:42","slug":"blind-sports-ns-athletes-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Blind Sports NS Athletes in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Congratulations, Simon Richard, centre for Nova\u00a0Scotia&#8217;s\u00a0men&#8217;s goalball team,\u00a0\u00a0on being selected to represent Canada at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games!<\/strong> (articles in French only)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/regions\/atlantique\/2016\/05\/27\/018-acadie-nouveau-brunswick-simon-richard-jeux-paralympiques-rio.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Richard participera aux Jeux paralympiques de Rio\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acadienouvelle.com\/sports\/2016\/05\/27\/goalball-simon-richard-confirme-aux-jeux-paralympiques-de-rio\/?pgnc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Goalball: Simon Richard est confirm\u00e9 aux Jeux paralympiques de Rio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A fantastic article from The Casket featuring Alex Angus MacEachen, a 15-year-old from Mabou, won silver for Team Nova Scotia at the Junior Boys (20-and-Under) National Goalball Championships recently in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecasket.ca\/archives\/50317\" target=\"_blank\">MacEachen silver medallist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out this article about Mason Smith, Junior goalball athlete from Middleton, who was named Sport Nova Scotia\u2019s Sport Chek Athlete of the Month for his performance at the 2016 Goalball Championships. Congrats, Mason.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annapoliscountyspectator.ca\/sports\/2016\/6\/6\/middleton-teen-helps-provincial-team-secure-national-goalball-wi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Middleton teen helps provincial team secure national goalball win<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations, Simon Richard, centre for Nova\u00a0Scotia&#8217;s\u00a0men&#8217;s goalball team,\u00a0\u00a0on being selected to represent Canada at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games! (articles in French only) Simon Richard participera aux Jeux paralympiques de Rio\u00a0 Goalball: Simon Richard est confirm\u00e9 aux Jeux paralympiques de Rio A fantastic article from The Casket featuring Alex Angus MacEachen, a 15-year-old from Mabou, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?p=257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blind Sports NS Athletes in the News<\/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\/257"}],"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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}