{"id":12115,"date":"2012-07-05T00:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T22:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/olympics-south-africa-name-pistorius-in-4x400-relay-team\/"},"modified":"2012-07-05T00:13:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T22:13:44","slug":"olympics-south-africa-name-pistorius-in-4x400-relay-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-south-africa-name-pistorius-in-4x400-relay-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-South Africa name Pistorius in 4&#215;400 relay team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, July 4<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The South African Olympic<br \/>\nCommittee on Wednesday named double amputee Oscar Pistorius in<br \/>\nits 4 by 400 metres relay team for the London Games.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Pistorius) will now compete at his first Olympic Games,&#8221;<br \/>\nthe committee said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pistorius, known as the &#8216;Blade Runner&#8217; added in a tweet:<br \/>\n&#8220;Today is really one of the happiest days of my life! Will be in<br \/>\nLondon 2012 for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> (Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, July 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The South African Olympic Committee on Wednesday named double amputee Oscar Pistorius in its 4 by 400 metres relay team for the London Games. &#8220;(Pistorius) will now compete at his first Olympic Games,&#8221; the committee said in a news release. Pistorius, known as the &#8216;Blade Runner&#8217; added in a tweet: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}