{"id":8122,"date":"2020-08-27T11:32:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T11:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T11:32:03","slug":"rani-rampal-gets-emotional-after-getting-khel-ratna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/27\/rani-rampal-gets-emotional-after-getting-khel-ratna\/","title":{"rendered":"Rani Rampal gets emotional after getting Khel Ratna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Sports Ministry named five athletes including cricketer&nbsp;Rohit Sharma, wrestler Vinesh Phogat, table tennis player Manika Batra, Rani and Paralympian Thangavelu Mariyappan for this year\u2019s Khel Ratna.<br>Rani Rampal never expected the Khel Ratna to be bestowed on a woman hockey player and that\u2019s a reason why she could not hold back her tears on being named for it this year, calling it the country\u2019s highest sporting honour a testament to her hard work and sacrifices.<br>\u201cHonestly, being a woman hockey player I was not expecting that I will be awarded the Khel Ratna. When I found out about the announcement, I was extremely emotional and could not hold back my tears,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sports Ministry named five athletes including cricketer&nbsp;Rohit Sharma, wrestler Vinesh Phogat, table tennis player Manika Batra, Rani and Paralympian Thangavelu Mariyappan for this year\u2019s Khel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8122","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}