{"id":640836,"date":"2013-01-31T17:33:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T22:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=0333efc8020aaa68094de25fb9059c79"},"modified":"2013-01-31T17:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T22:33:30","slug":"highlighting-inclusion-diversity-and-human-rights-at-the-special-olympics-world-winter-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640836","title":{"rendered":"Highlighting Inclusion, Diversity and Human Rights at the Special Olympics World Winter Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During recent days we have had the honor as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/01\/28\/president-obama-announces-presidential-delegation-opening-ceremony-10th-\">U.S. Presidential Delegation<\/a> to accompany more than 150 U.S. Special Olympians to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialolympics.org\/Games\/PyeongChang_2013.aspx\">2013 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea<\/a>. In addition to the Opening Ceremonies of the games on Tuesday, the Presidential Delegation had a unique chance to spend time with the athletes and view some of the events.<\/p>\n<p>While we have made a special effort to cheer on the U.S. athletes on behalf of the President, the Special Olympics is about far more than winning &ndash; it&rsquo;s about encouraging diversity, celebrating inclusion and recommitting to the human rights of persons with disabilities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>People with disabilities come from all walks of life, genders, every social class, and all religious traditions. Most of us have a family member, friend or acquaintance with a disability.&nbsp;People with disabilities make tremendous contributions to our society, to our families, to our neighborhoods &ndash; adding to the diversity that makes America a unique and special place to call home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/01\/31\/highlighting-inclusion-diversity-and-human-rights-special-olympics-world-winter-game\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During recent days we have had the honor as part of a U.S. Presidential Delegation to accompany more than 150 U.S. Special Olympians to the&nbsp;2013 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. In addition to the Opening Ceremonies of the games on Tuesday, the Presidential Delegation had a unique chance to spend time with the athletes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}