{"id":7697,"date":"2016-08-03T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/08\/03\/8-athletes-set-to-compete-in-first-olympics-for-team-kosovo\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T20:30:00","slug":"8-athletes-set-to-compete-in-first-olympics-for-team-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/8-athletes-set-to-compete-in-first-olympics-for-team-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Athletes Set To Compete In First Olympics For Team Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/03\/488568377\/8-athletes-set-to-compete-in-first-olympics-for-team-kosovo?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Melissa Block<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Kosovo is making its first appearance in the Olympics, sending eight athletes to the games. They are admittedly a small team but optimism and pride are strong. They have a good shot at a medal in women&#8217;s judo, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/03\/488568377\/8-athletes-set-to-compete-in-first-olympics-for-team-kosovo?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"8 Athletes Set To Compete In First Olympics For Team Kosovo\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/03\/488568377\/8-athletes-set-to-compete-in-first-olympics-for-team-kosovo?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo is making its first appearance in the Olympics, sending eight athletes to the games. They are admittedly a small team but optimism and pride are strong. They have a good shot at a medal in women&#8217;s judo, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}