{"id":774310,"date":"2026-07-02T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774310\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:05:09","slug":"wheelchair-basketball-took-reginas-reid-richard-around-the-world-now-hes-a-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/774310\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchair basketball took Regina&#8217;s Reid Richard around the world. Now he&#8217;s a coach."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 5:35<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">Reid Richard was born without tibia bones in his lower legs. His parents faced a tough decision for their son: either have metal rods implanted repeatedly as he grew up, or proceed with amputation. They ultimately chose amputation, and Richard says that was the right choice. Eventually, Richard discovered wheelchair basketball, and went on to play at an elite level. Now, he\u2019s transitioned to coaching the next generation. He\u2019s featured in a new video for the CBC Creator Network by Regina based filmmaker, RC Equina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 hours agoNewsDuration 5:35 Reid Richard was born without tibia bones in his lower legs. His parents faced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-774310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}