{"id":575,"date":"2016-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-hakai-institute-wp.pantheonsite.io\/hakai-olympics\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T21:19:06","slug":"hakai-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/hakai-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakai Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some of world\u2019s best athletes compete\u00a0in Rio de Janeiro, another lesser-known sporting competition was taking place far to the north on the sands of Calvert Island, British Columbia\u2014the first annual Hakai Olympics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1282\" style=\"width: 1110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1282\" src=\"https:\/\/live-hakai-institute-wp.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/hakai_olympics_2016-0400_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1110\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/hakai_olympics_2016-0400_1.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/hakai_olympics_2016-0400_1-575x383.jpg 575w, https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/hakai_olympics_2016-0400_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/hakai_olympics_2016-0400_1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/hakai_olympics_2016-0400_1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hakai Olympics opening ceremonies. Photo by Grant Callegari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the\u00a0long summer science fieldwork season, it\u2019s critical to keep staff and scientists sharp, in shape,\u00a0and on top of their game.\u00a0Organized by Hakai Olympic Committee (HOC) President\u00a0Emma Myers, the Hakai Olympics began with an opening ceremonies led\u00a0by honorary torch bearer Nelson Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>The festivities ended with medal ceremonies\u00a0and, of course,\u00a0the Canadian anthem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While some of world\u2019s best athletes compete\u00a0in Rio de Janeiro, another lesser-known sporting competition was taking place far to the north on the sands of Calvert Island, British Columbia\u2014the first annual Hakai Olympics. Over the\u00a0long summer science fieldwork season, it\u2019s <\/p>\n<div class=\"excerpt\"><span>&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hakai.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}