{"id":40223,"date":"2017-02-06T09:50:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T07:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=40223"},"modified":"2017-02-06T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T07:50:15","slug":"simba-cherish-zimbabwe-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/02\/06\/simba-cherish-zimbabwe-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Simba cherish Zimbabwe trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samba Hockey Team\u2019s first-ever trip to Zimbabwe has given the Blantyre team renewed vigour, despite losing four out of five matches.<\/p>\n<p>Simba lost to University of Zimbabwe Ladies 8-0, Rising Stars 3-1 and Hippo Ladies 3-1 on January 28.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, Simba drew 0-0 and lost 2-0 to opponents, whose names were not readily available as we went to press.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Simba Captain, Trinity Chilembwe, described the trip as fruitful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the losses, it was a good learning experience. It was interesting to see how other hockey teams play. We have definitely learnt from this tournament,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Chilembwe thanked Rising Star Media and friends for hosting the team in Harare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very appreciative of the hospitality they showed us. They went above our expectations,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thankful to everyone who made our trip successful. We, especially, thank GPY who came through with a hefty donation at the last minute. We are truly grateful for their generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samba Hockey Team\u2019s first-ever trip to Zimbabwe has given the Blantyre team renewed vigour, despite losing four out of five matches. Simba lost to University of Zimbabwe Ladies 8-0, Rising Stars 3-1 and Hippo Ladies 3-1 on January 28. The following day, Simba drew 0-0 and lost 2-0 to opponents, whose names were not readily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40227,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40223\/revisions\/40227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}