{"id":58135,"date":"2019-05-23T09:01:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T13:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=58135"},"modified":"2019-05-23T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:32:18","slug":"on-campus-event-offers-chance-to-try-parasports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/05\/on-campus-event-offers-chance-to-try-parasports\/","title":{"rendered":"On-campus event offers chance to try parasports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Brock community are invited to try their hand at a number of parasports during an event held on campus Saturday, June 1.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarapenguins.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brock Niagara Penguins<\/a>, a local parasport program for youth and adults with a physical disability, the Try Parasport Event will be held in Brock&#8217;s Gym 2 from 10 a.m. to noon.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will be able to\u00a0attempt three of the seven parasports the Penguins offer: wheelchair basketball, boccia and sitting volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>The Try Parasport Event is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.participaction.com\/?lang=en&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw5pPnBRBJEiwAULZKvlsUyFJeFZnmJeXo5j_byvW9LcO1dtYpCApa4GOl9xpGcvlLZ4DZihoCPiAQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ParticipACTION Community Better Challenge<\/a>, an annual initiative that aims to get neighbourhoods moving together and awards $150,000 to Canada\u2019s most active community.<\/p>\n<p>The first 40 people to register by Friday, May 24 will have a chance to win a prize.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more and register, visit the program\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evite.com\/event\/022FR4Q6JXQDSYG6AEPJLL6EA7BOQI\/rsvp?utm_source=NA&amp;utm_medium=sharable_invite&amp;utm_campaign=send_sharable_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Brock community are invited to try their hand at a number of parasports during an event held on campus Saturday, June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[1005,7929],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58135"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58136,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58135\/revisions\/58136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}