{"id":216,"date":"2015-07-27T23:21:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T23:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/in-pictures-special-olympics-world-games-kicks-off-in-long-beach-3\/"},"modified":"2015-07-27T23:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T23:21:03","slug":"in-pictures-special-olympics-world-games-kicks-off-in-long-beach-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/in-pictures-special-olympics-world-games-kicks-off-in-long-beach-3","title":{"rendered":"IN PICTURES: Special Olympics World Games Kick Off in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-42207\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/DSC_0783_900x600.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 0783 900x600\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Asia Morris.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Monday marked the third day of competition in Long Beach during the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles, after Saturday and Sunday\u2019s open water swimming events.<\/p>\n<p>This morning and afternoon, cycling and volleyball faced off on Alamitos Beach and sailing kicked off at the Belmont Pier. With three of the World Games venues located in Long Beach, the city will play an active role through August 1, when the sailing and half marathon events conclude. Long Beach will have hosted seven of the 24 World Games events.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the single largest sporting event in SoCal since the \u201884 Olympics,\u201d said Jane Netherton, co-chair of the Long Beach Organizing Committee for the World Games.<\/p>\n<p>{gallery}asia\/specialolympics\/july27{\/gallery}<\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday marked the third day of competition in Long Beach during the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles, after Saturday and Sunday\u2019s open water swimming events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":16557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[102],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-special-olympics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}