{"id":8877,"date":"2016-04-19T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2016-04-19T12:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:21:58","slug":"special-olympians-take-to-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8877","title":{"rendered":"Special Olympians Take to Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8878\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/soto.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8878\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8878\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/soto-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Coaches and participants (thanks to TPS News)\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/soto-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/soto.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coaches and participants (thanks to TPS News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sara Faruqi, Toronto Police Service:-<br \/>\nLaughter and cheers are heard every Thursday evening from the gym at the Parkway Forest Community Centre.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the sound of a cricket clinic, taught by Toronto Police officers for young people with intellectual disabilities.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s more about having fun than competing,\u201d explains Constable Asad Khan who started the clinic, along with Detective Mansoor Ahmed, in collaboration with Special Olympics Canada.<br \/>\nThe program started in 2014 when parents of children with intellectual disabilities approached Khan and Ahmed, asking for sports program to foster better relationships between police and children.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tpsnews.ca\/stories\/2016\/04\/special-olympians-take-pitch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story, video and more photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Faruqi, Toronto Police Service:- Laughter and cheers are heard every Thursday evening from the gym at the Parkway Forest Community Centre. It\u2019s the sound of a cricket clinic, taught by Toronto Police officers for young people with intellectual disabilities. \u201cIt\u2019s more about having fun than competing,\u201d explains Constable Asad Khan who started the clinic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8879,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions\/8879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}