{"id":124,"date":"2014-05-09T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/71.18.12.229\/content\/?p=124"},"modified":"2014-05-25T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T15:04:25","slug":"mark-demontis-hockey-for-the-blind-on-w5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Mark DeMontis &#038; Hockey for the Blind on W5."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inspiring story of Mark DeMontis &amp; Courage Canada Hockey for the Blind on \u00a0CTV W5 on May 10th.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When Mark DeMontis was a kid he wanted to become a professional hockey player. He almost made it.<\/p>\n<p>At age seventeen he was a year from playing NCAA hockey, with hopes of becoming a pro. Then he was diagnosed with Leber\u2019s Optic Neuropathy, a disease that slowly robbed him of the central vision in both eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Legally blind, DeMontis didn\u2019t give up on himself and founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragecanada.ca\/\">Courage Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/w5\/hockey-visionary-mark-demontis-overcame-losing-his-sight-to-inspire-help-others-1.1816339<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inspiring story of Mark DeMontis &amp; Courage Canada Hockey for the Blind on \u00a0CTV W5 on May 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}