{"id":23528,"date":"2025-10-07T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/?p=23528"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:13:51","slug":"the-raptors-are-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/?p=23528","title":{"rendered":"The Raptors Are In Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"23528\" class=\"elementor elementor-23528\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e117184 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e117184\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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charities and Calgary didn&#8217;t disappoint, with a sold out event that had the Jack Simpson gymnasium packed.\u00a0 The noise levels were epic and I wished for some ear plugs on several occasions. It was great fun and I was happy to see this level of interest and support for charities and basketball in Calgary,\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23528"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23913,"href":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23528\/revisions\/23913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballwhistle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}