{"id":75214,"date":"2019-01-10T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/10\/nuns-on-the-run-vatican-launches-athletics-team-and-targets-olympics\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T13:30:09","slug":"nuns-on-the-run-vatican-launches-athletics-team-and-targets-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=75214","title":{"rendered":"Nuns on the run: Vatican launches athletics team and targets Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Vatican Athletics has blessing of Italian Olympic Committee\u2022 Priests, nuns and 62-year-old library worker among membersThe Vatican has launched an athletics team with the aim of competing in international competitions \u2013 including the Olympics \u2013 as part of an agreement signed with the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni).About 60 Holy See runners \u2013 Swiss Guards, priests, nuns, pharmacists and a 62-year-old professor who works in the Vatican\u2019s Apostolic Library \u2013 are the first accredited members of Vatican Athletics. It is the latest iteration of the Holy See\u2019s longstanding promotion of sport as an instrument of dialogue, peace and solidarity. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/jan\/10\/vatican-announces-athletics-team-olympics-italian-olympic-committee\" target=\"_blank\">Nuns on the run: Vatican launches athletics team and targets Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Vatican Athletics has blessing of Italian Olympic Committee\u2022 Priests, nuns and 62-year-old library worker among membersThe Vatican has launched an athletics team with the aim of competing in international competitions \u2013 including the Olympics \u2013 as part of an agreement signed with the Italian Olympic Committee (Coni).About 60 Holy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}