{"id":24711,"date":"2012-05-23T14:28:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=24711"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:44:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:44:51","slug":"olympic-day-at-st-marys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/05\/23\/olympic-day-at-st-marys\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Day at St. Marys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Nancy Replogle<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24712\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/kids-jumping-olympic.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24712 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/kids-jumping-olympic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaden Thomas does the standing long jump. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>St. Mary of the Assumption School held an &#8220;Olympic Day&#8221; on Tuesday, May 15.<\/p>\n<p>The students were divided into \u201ccontinents\u201d and each continent was divided into four teams. The continents competed as teams and\/or individually in various events. For the opening ceremony all teams marched into the gym as the Olympic song was played. Erika Younts carried the Olympic torch.<\/p>\n<p>After students recited the Olympic oath, the games began. Running races, softball throwing, chalk drawings, quiz bowls, an obstacle course, standing long jump, and many other events were included.<\/p>\n<p>At the closing ceremony all students received a medal. Appreciation goes to Frank and Mary Minnig for organizing the event, and to the parent volunteers who helped make the day go smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>The students had a lot of fun and plenty of exercise. Congratulations to all the teams for using \u201cLIFE\u201d skills and showing good sportsmanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nancy Replogle St. Mary of the Assumption School held an &#8220;Olympic Day&#8221; on Tuesday, May 15. The students were divided into \u201ccontinents\u201d and each continent was divided into four teams. The continents competed as teams and\/or individually in various events. For the opening ceremony all teams marched into the gym as the Olympic song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youth"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 06:23:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}