{"id":292851,"date":"2026-09-24T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292851\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:34:16","slug":"local-runner-to-represent-pennsylvania-at-2027-special-olympic-world-games-in-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292851\/","title":{"rendered":"Local runner to represent Pennsylvania at 2027 Special Olympic World Games in Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bradford\/Sullivan County native Damian Smith qualified and was nominated to compete in the games next summer<\/p>\n<p>SULLIVAN COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 Bradford and Sullivan County Special Olympics athlete, Damian Smith, will be representing Pennsylvania and the US at the 2027 Special Olympics World Games in Chile!<\/p>\n<p>Damian recently found out he was nominated for the honor and spent a few days this month in Chile, at training camp preparing for the World Games.<\/p>\n<p>Damian is an experienced long-distance runner, and we wish him best of luck as he gets ready to compete next summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradford\/Sullivan County native Damian Smith qualified and was nominated to compete in the games next summer SULLIVAN COUNTY,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-292851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}