{"id":14034,"date":"2012-08-30T03:25:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T01:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-paralympics-hawking-says-look-to-stars-as-paralympics-opens\/"},"modified":"2012-08-30T03:25:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T01:25:24","slug":"update-1-paralympics-hawking-says-look-to-stars-as-paralympics-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-paralympics-hawking-says-look-to-stars-as-paralympics-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Paralympics-Hawking says &quot;look to stars&quot; as Paralympics opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds quotes, details)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Paralympics biggest in event&#8217;s history<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Look up at the stars,&#8221; Hawking says<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* 164 nations represented, 4,280 athletes participate<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Nothing to be ashamed about&#8221; says Pistorius<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Tom Pilcher<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Wheelchair-bound physicist<br \/>\nStephen Hawking challenged athletes to &#8220;look to the stars&#8221; on<br \/>\nWednesday as he helped open a record-setting Paralympics Games<br \/>\nthat will run for 11 days in near sold-out venues.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Close on the heels of the hard-act-to-follow London 2012<br \/>\nOlympics, thousands of dancers and stunning fireworks added to<br \/>\nthe good cheer on the opening night for an audience of 80,000.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hawking, diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of<br \/>\n21 and told in 1963 he had two years to live, began the ceremony<br \/>\nby reading from the stage.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds quotes, details) * Paralympics biggest in event&#8217;s history * &#8220;Look up at the stars,&#8221; Hawking says * 164 nations represented, 4,280 athletes participate * &#8220;Nothing to be ashamed about&#8221; says Pistorius By Tom Pilcher LONDON, Aug 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Wheelchair-bound physicist Stephen Hawking challenged athletes to &#8220;look to the stars&#8221; on Wednesday as he [&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-14034","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\/14034","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=14034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}