{"id":21187,"date":"2016-09-14T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=21187"},"modified":"2016-09-14T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T18:54:43","slug":"unionvilles-mcgrory-brings-home-the-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=21187","title":{"rendered":"Unionville&#8217;s McGrory brings home the gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1733\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1733\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1733\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Picture-40-263x300.png\" alt=\"Amanda McGrory\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amanda McGrory<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An East Marlborough native and Unionville High School graduate added to her collection of Paralympic medals with a win in the 1,500 meter wheelchair race in Rio De Janiero, Tuesday, as part of a U.S. sweep of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda McGrory \u2014 who won gold at the Beijing Paralympics in 2008 and competed in London in 2012 \u2014 won the race, leading teammates Tatyana McFadded and Chelsea McClammer to a U.S. 1-2-3 finish in the event.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>McGrory \u2014 one of the world&#8217;s top wheelchair marathoners \u2014 is expected to be in the medal hunt in the 5,000-meter final, Thursday afternoon (4:30 p.m.).<\/p>\n<p>A multi-sport star at the University of Illinois \u2014 McGrory has competed in three paralympics and a number of the world&#8217;s top marathon events, including New York and London. She now lives and trains in Illinois.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An East Marlborough native and Unionville High School graduate added to her collection of Paralympic medals with a win in the 1,500 meter wheelchair race in Rio De Janiero, Tuesday, as part of a U.S. sweep of the event. Amanda McGrory \u2014 who won gold at the Beijing Paralympics in 2008 and competed in London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7937,7939,759,7938,34],"class_list":["post-21187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-amanda-mcgrory","tag-athlete","tag-east-marlborough","tag-paralympics","tag-unionville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21188,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187\/revisions\/21188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}