{"id":661597,"date":"2013-07-31T16:56:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=df24b75d70347fefa166988d8fc96b1b"},"modified":"2013-07-31T16:56:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T20:56:32","slug":"president-obama-congratulates-ncaa-champion-uconn-huskies-one-of-the-great-sports-dynasties-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661597","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Congratulates NCAA Champion UConn Huskies: &#8220;One Of The Great Sports Dynasties Of Our Time&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Today in the East Room, President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/07\/31\/remarks-president-honoring-2013-ncaa-champion-uconn-huskies\">honored the 2013 NCAA Division I women&#39;s basketball champion&nbsp;UConn Huskies<\/a>&nbsp;as a part of his commitment to celebrate sports teams that inspire their communities on and off the court.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was a familiar one for the Huskies, who won the tournament and visits to the White House in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/shooting-around-with-huskies\">2009<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/i-truly-believed-was-best-team-all-sports\">2010<\/a>. President Obama joked that eight-time NCAA champion UConn Coach Geno Auriemma &quot;spent more time than some Presidents in the White House.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>While the Huskies have a new trophy to tout, President Obama called attention to their positive impact on those around them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/president-obama-celebrates-ncaa-champion-uconn-huskies-one-great-sports-dynasties-ou\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the East Room, President Obama honored the 2013 NCAA Division I women&#39;s basketball champion&nbsp;UConn Huskies&nbsp;as a part of his commitment to celebrate sports teams that inspire their communities on and off the court. The trip was a familiar one for the Huskies, who won the tournament and visits to the White House in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8774,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661597","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\/8774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}