{"id":34789,"date":"2015-08-28T13:41:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T18:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=34789"},"modified":"2015-08-31T14:25:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:25:45","slug":"badgers-hit-the-road-to-scandinavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/08\/badgers-hit-the-road-to-scandinavia\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers hit the road &#8211; to Scandinavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34813\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/badgers-bball-for-web1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34813\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34813 \" title=\"badgers-bball-for-web1\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/badgers-bball-for-web1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the men's basketball team get ready to leave for Sweden.\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the men&#39;s basketball team get ready to leave for Sweden.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Brock University men&#8217;s basketball team is taking their game abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The Badgers left Friday (Aug 28) for Sweden, where they will play four games before returning on Sept. 3<\/p>\n<p>The trip includes visits to the cities of\u00a0Eskilstuna and Stockholm, where the\u00a0Badgers will play some of Sweden&#8217;s top club teams &#8211; Eskilstuna Basket,\u00a0Jarfalla,\u00a0Taby Basket and back-to-back Swedish champions\u00a0S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje Kings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great opportunity for our players, our program and Brock University to represent internationally,&#8221; said head coach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gobadgers.ca\/coaches.aspx?rc=67\">Charles Kissi<\/a>. &#8220;We are fortunate here at Brock to have some unique experiences. Our athletes have been training hard this summer and this will be a great pre-season building block.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34791\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/badgers-on-bus.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34791\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34791\" title=\"badgers-on-bus\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/badgers-on-bus.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the men's basketball team get on the bus to start their trip to Sweden.\" width=\"495\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the men&#39;s basketball team get on the bus to start their trip to Sweden.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University mens basketball team is taking their game abroad &#8211; to Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":34813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[88,2350,3281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34793,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34789\/revisions\/34793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}