{"id":20770,"date":"2015-07-23T01:21:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T08:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20770"},"modified":"2015-07-23T01:21:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T08:21:45","slug":"special-olympics-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/special-olympics-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Olympics in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/speoly.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos include teams from New Zealand and Australia (left) hosted in Huntington Beach, and teams from Ecuador (middle &amp; right) hosted in Poway, Calif.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Olympics World Games Athletes in\u00a0California<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before the 7,000 Special Olympics athletes compete at the 2015 World Games in Southern California\u00a0July 25-August 2, 2015,\u00a0Special Olympics delegations from around the world\u00a0are being\u00a0treated to three memorable days of recreation, entertainment, and cultural exchange at more than 80\u00a0Host Towns. Cities and destinations hosting athletes range from Solvang to South Pasadena, providing international visitors opportunities to enjoy\u00a0California&#8217;s famous\u00a0beaches, mountains, theme parks, deserts and more. It&#8217;s a once in a lifetime experience not only for Special Olympians but for\u00a0their\u00a0hosts as well.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Wescott, who works at Surf City Store on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/huntington-beach-pier.html\">Huntington Beach Pier<\/a> said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never met nicer people than these Australian athletes. They&#8217;re so polite, proud of their country and thrilled to be here. I hope they each win a Gold Medal!&#8221; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/special-olympics-in-california.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos include teams from New Zealand and Australia (left) hosted in Huntington Beach, and teams from Ecuador (middle &amp; right) hosted in Poway, Calif. Special Olympics World Games Athletes in\u00a0California Before the 7,000 Special Olympics athletes compete at the 2015 World Games in Southern California\u00a0July 25-August 2, 2015,\u00a0Special Olympics delegations from around the world\u00a0are being\u00a0treated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}