{"id":123933,"date":"2017-10-15T03:27:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T07:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=123933"},"modified":"2017-10-15T03:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T07:27:01","slug":"cebu-to-host-2017-philippine-national-games-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/15\/cebu-to-host-2017-philippine-national-games-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Cebu to host 2017 Philippine National Games in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123934\" style=\"width: 591px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Pinoy_Games_Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123934\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Pinoy_Games_Logo.png\" alt=\"The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) announced that preparations are underway for the Philippine National Games (PNG) which would be held from December 10-17 in Cebu City. (Photo By 2011png - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"591\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Pinoy_Games_Logo.png 591w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Pinoy_Games_Logo-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) announced that preparations are underway for the Philippine National Games (PNG) which would be held from December 10-17 in Cebu City. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=16760936\">(Photo By 2011png &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) announced that preparations are underway for the Philippine National Games (PNG) which would be held from December 10-17 in Cebu City.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement released to the media on Friday, PSC Chairman William &#8220;Butch&#8221; Ramirez reiterated the agency\u2019s commitment in supporting grassroots sports as he addressed coaches and technical officials during the PNG coordination meeting last Wednesday at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for being here and lending your time and skills,&#8221; said Ramirez during the meeting attended by coaches, technical officials and athletes from different sports associations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deepening the hold of grassroots sports will\u00a0pave the way for larger developments in the country\u2019s push for sports development,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the PNG, the PSC has lined up activities such as the Batang Pinoy tournament in Vigan this October, Children\u2019s Games and Indigenous Games.<\/p>\n<p>The sports agency is also cooperating with the Department of Education (DepEd) for a bigger and better Palarong Pambansa.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the PSC will hold a consultative meeting among collegiate sports stakeholders on Ocrober 16 and 17 at the Philsports Multi-purpose Arena in Pasig City in an effort to a unified association for sports in the university level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we do something, let us do it the best we could. Let us make a great edition of the PNG and discover the hidden gems in our youth,\u201d said Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s Philippine National Games was hosted by Pangasinan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) announced that preparations are underway for the Philippine National Games (PNG) which would be held &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":123934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[27850,27849,13096],"class_list":["post-123933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cebu-city","tag-philippine-national-games","tag-philippine-sports-commission","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}