{"id":6377,"date":"2024-11-02T10:20:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T10:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/people-thought-cheerleading-was-impossible-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2024-11-02T10:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T10:20:57","slug":"people-thought-cheerleading-was-impossible-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/people-thought-cheerleading-was-impossible-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People thought cheerleading was impossible in Rwanda\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cheerleading is a popular activity in many parts of the world, particularly in the USA and Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But now it has started to gain ground somewhere more unlikely &#8211; Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A dance agency in the capital Kigali has put together the country&#8217;s first official squad the Xtreme Cheerleaders, also known as the Pom Pom Girls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Yvette Kabatesi and Priyanka Sippy.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/videos\/cj3mn8d8v8jo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheerleading is a popular activity in many parts of the world, particularly in the USA and Canada. But now it has started to gain ground somewhere more unlikely &#8211; Rwanda. A dance agency in the capital Kigali has put together the country&#8217;s first official squad the Xtreme Cheerleaders, also known as the Pom Pom Girls. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6379,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions\/6379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}