{"id":70,"date":"2007-11-27T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2015-11-27T18:22:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T02:22:35","slug":"pucks-program-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/pucks-program-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"PuCKS Program 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p>The PuCKS Program began in 2005. By 2007, with its &#8220;hockey-as-incentive&#8221; approach, many youth in need (and some at risk) were staying in school. Youth with financial need, behavioral challenges or youth who were trying to re-settle to Canada from foreign lands were targetted. The Langley community (Businesses, Education, Government, Health &#038; Non-Profit organizations) rallied together. They embraced and encouraged the PuCKS Program and its kids from all sides. With this support, PuCKS kids became more successful in life: volunteered in the community, shared their successes, set goals and achieved dreams. Five years later, PuCKS has grown and continues to thrive&#8230;.. like its community&#8230; like its kids!<\/p>\n<p><center> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/19lJYHTJApw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PuCKS Program began in 2005. By 2007, with its &#8220;hockey-as-incentive&#8221; approach, many youth in need (and some at risk) were staying in school. Youth with financial need, behavioral challenges or youth who were trying to re-settle to Canada from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/pucks-program-2007\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[18,9,6,30,32],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-hockey","tag-langley","tag-pucks","tag-sports","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}