{"id":1022,"date":"2018-09-07T07:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2018-09-07T07:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:07:40","slug":"this-asian-games-bronze-medalist-of-2018-is-selling-tea-for-a-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"This Asian Games Bronze Medalist of 2018 is selling &#8216;Tea&#8217; for a living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi,<\/strong>\u00a0What can be a bigger irony when one gets to know that Asian Games bronze medalist sells tea for a living. The whole country may be basking in the glory of Asiad Games glory where the Indian players have done exceptionally good.<\/p>\n<p>But here is a story that will shock you. Harish Kumar, member of the Indian Sepak Takraw team that won a bronze medal at the Asian Games 2018, sells tea at his father&#8217;s shop to support his family.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters at his small tea shop, Harish Kumar said, &#8220;I have many family members and there is a very meagre source of income. I help my father at the tea shop to support my family. I dedicate four hours every day between 2 to 6 for my practice. For my future, I want to get a good job to support my family&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about his struggles and initial association with the Sepak Takraw game, he said, &#8220;I started playing this sport from 2011. My coach Hemraj brought me into this sport. We also used to play with a tyre when my coach Hemraj spotted me and introduced me to the Sports Authority of India (SAI). Thereafter I started receiving monthly funds and kits. I practice every day and will keep on doing it to bring more laurels for my country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Harish&#8217;s mother, Indira Devi also talked about adversities under which she supported her son to pursue the game.She said, &#8220;I have brought up my kids with a lot of struggle. His father is an auto-driver and we have a small tea shop. My son also works at tea shop to assist his father. I am very thankful to the government for providing food and accommodation to my son. I am very thankful to his coach Hemraj who has supported my kid to achieve this accomplishment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,\u00a0What can be a bigger irony when one gets to know that Asian Games bronze medalist sells tea for a living. The whole country may be basking in the glory of Asiad Games glory where the Indian players have done exceptionally good. But here is a story that will shock you. Harish Kumar, member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}