{"id":25,"date":"2019-03-16T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T02:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightsticks.org.au\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2022-08-09T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T05:17:19","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nightsticks.org.au\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rich\nhistory of the Combined Nightsticks Hockey Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A band of\nbrothers from all over Australia coming together to play a sport they love,\nHockey.&nbsp;&nbsp; We had been fierce rivals for many years until we had an\nopportunity in 2002 to play together on the world stage.&nbsp; The experience\nwas amazing and the Nightsticks legend was born.&nbsp; From these humble\nbeginnings we have been getting together as a team and have played around\nAustralia on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After playing against each other countless times every two years at the fire &amp; emergency games it was decided to put together a combined team for the World Masters Games in Melbourne 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After numerous calls and e-mails the inaugural team of 11 was formed.\u00a0 It was decided to name the team Nightsticks which best described where we came from and what we did as a group.\u00a0 A trip to the Melbourne Markets and the first emblem was borne.\u00a0 This emblem has remained with the club over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nightsticks\nis based on mateship, a common bond of present and past emergency services\nbackground, love of hockey and on having one hell of a time no matter where we\ngo in Australia.&nbsp; Each trip is memorable both on and off the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rich history of the Combined Nightsticks Hockey Team. A band of brothers from all over Australia coming together to play a sport they love, Hockey.&nbsp;&nbsp; We had been fierce rivals for many years until we had an opportunity in 2002 to play together on the world stage.&nbsp; The experience was amazing and the Nightsticks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightsticks.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightsticks.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightsticks.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightsticks.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightsticks.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nightsticks.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/nightsticks.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightsticks.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}