{"id":175,"date":"2019-06-10T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/2019\/06\/10\/2019-5-19-thai-gaa\/"},"modified":"2019-06-10T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T22:36:00","slug":"2019-5-19-thai-gaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/2019\/06\/10\/2019-5-19-thai-gaa\/","title":{"rendered":"An award in Rebecca&#8217;s name from Thai GAA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content>\n<h3 style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Bangkok, Thailand &#8211; The Rebecca Dowling Impact Award<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I&#8217;ve struggled to put into words how much of an honor this is for Rebecca&#8217;s memory, and for myself as her teammate and sister. Rebecca would be amazed and humbled by the recognition. She had so much respect for the team: the professional and loving way it was run, the sportsmanship and openness of the players, and the fun and belonging we felt during practices and games.&nbsp;<br \/>Being the daughters of a celebrated player for Celbridge GAA and Dublin Minors, we grew up around the community, the athletes and our Dad&#8217;s many, many trophies. It was an unprecedented treat to come to the sport in my 30s, and have my little sister on my team. We did win a trophy or 2 with our beloved Thai GAA Junior side, giving the Dowling GAA new life in Asia.&nbsp;<br \/>But this award, which will live on in her name, is so special. I am looking forward to meeting Con one day, by all accounts he and Becks would have been great mates!&nbsp;<br \/>Thank you&nbsp;John, Ger and Niall&nbsp;for recognizing that a team is made from so much more than great skill &#8211; it takes great love and commitment as well. I am so lucky to have you all in my life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The inaugural Rebecca Dowling Impact Award, won by Con O&#8217;Rourke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,6],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rebecca","category-thailand","tag-memorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdhammer.com\/hammeraway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}