{"id":8035,"date":"2011-06-26T06:31:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T02:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2011-07-16T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:44:40","slug":"gaza-summer-games-sets-world-records-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/gaza-summer-games-sets-world-records-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Summer Games Sets World Records Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Summer-Games-in-Gaza.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8037\" title=\"Summer-Games-in-Gaza\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Summer-Games-in-Gaza-e1309055451629.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Summer-Games-in-Gaza-e1309055451629.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Summer-Games-in-Gaza-e1309055451629-145x92.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>The 2011 Gaza Summer Games opened on Thursday with an Olympic-style torch relay through the Strip. 57 kids carried the flame thru Gaza and finished the marathon with a ceremony lighting a huge torch placed on the top of UNRWA&#8217;s Headquarters, ushering in six weeks of sports, swimming, arts and drama. The flame inside my heart for Gaza grows brighter everyday, I wish I could have attended!<\/p>\n<p>250,000 Gazan students participate in the summer program now in its 5th year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/etemplate.php?id=931\">For the past two years<\/a>, children in Summer Games have proved they can be <strong>the best in the world by breaking three Guinness World Records \u2013 in kite flying and basketball bouncing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year, they will be attempting to break four Guinness World Records:<\/p>\n<p>30 June: Most playing parachute games. 3,500 children (current record 1,547 children)<\/p>\n<p>14 July: Most dribbling a football. 2,024 children (no current record)<\/p>\n<p>21 July: Largest handprint painting. 5,400 square metres (current record 4,355.85 square metres)<\/p>\n<p>28 July: Most flying kites simultaneously. 9,000 children (current record 6,198 UNRWA 2010)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNIE, MONDOWEISS: Now in its fifth year the Gaza Summer Games provides a beacon of light for 250,000 students. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,5,7],"tags":[4786,338,278,18297,5861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}