{"id":497831,"date":"2013-12-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/a-minute-of-silence-to-honor-nelson-mandela\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:00:00","slug":"a-minute-of-silence-to-honor-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/a-minute-of-silence-to-honor-nelson-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"A minute of silence to honor Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Euroleague Basketball and all of its clubs will honor Nelson Mandela with a minute of silence right before the tip-off of all games of Round 9 of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Mandela, who died at the age of 95 last week, was a leader in promoting sport as a tool to achieve peace, cohesion and integration. In his own words, &#8220;Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire and to break down barriers, and to unite people around the world in a way that little else does. It talks to the youth of the world in a language that they understand. Therefore, it is important that we use this powerful vehicle for unity\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Euroleague Basketball and Mandela\u2019s foundation, 46664, collaborated on different occasions, using basketball to raise awareness and funds to fight against the HIV\/AIDS epidemic afflicting poor communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> \t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Euroleague Basketball, its clubs, its players, and its coaches, will work together as one team to keep on striving to unite people through their beloved sport, basketball.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euroleague Basketball and all of its clubs will honor Nelson Mandela with a minute of silence right before the tip-off of all games of Round 9 of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-497831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-54"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497831"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=497831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}