{"id":4627,"date":"2015-08-12T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taraval.org\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2015-08-25T14:58:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T21:58:44","slug":"the-games-of-heroes-the-world-police-and-fire-games-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/?p=4627","title":{"rendered":"Games of Heroes: The World Police and Fire Games 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The World Police and Fire Games were held in Fairfax County, VA during the weekend of June 26 thru July 5, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Taraval Station\u2019s Officer Marchand represented the USA for track and field events in the age group of 55-59. Officer Marchand captured 3rd place for Javelin, 3rd place for triple Jump, 4th place for long jump and 4th place for the 4&#215;400 relay race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The World Police and Fire Games were\u00a0established in 1985. Today, the games are a spectacular international sporting event offering police officers, firefighters\u00a0and\u00a0all facets of law enforcement professions from around the world an opportunity to showcase their athletic excellence in over 65 sporting events. There are approximately 12,000\u00a0athletes from over 70 countries competing in\u00a0various sports capturing over 1,600 medals in these\u00a0events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Congratulations to all the participants especially our own Officer Marchand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150803_114825.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4632\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150803_114825-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"20150803_114825\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150803_114825-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150803_114825-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Track-and-Field.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4631\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Track-and-Field-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"WPFG Track\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Track-and-Field-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Track-and-Field-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Track-and-Field.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4636\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"WPFG Track\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The World Police and Fire Games were held in Fairfax County, VA during the weekend of June 26 thru July 5, 2015. Taraval Station\u2019s Officer Marchand represented the USA for track and field events in the age group of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4665,"href":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/4665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taraval.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}