{"id":61008,"date":"2014-08-19T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=61008"},"modified":"2014-08-19T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:23:18","slug":"nole-completes-the-ice-bucket-challenge-to-strike-out-als-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/events\/nole-completes-the-ice-bucket-challenge-to-strike-out-als-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Nole completes the &#8220;Ice Bucket Challenge&#8221; to strike out ALS (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61004\" src=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/kofa.jpg\" alt=\"Auto Draft\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/kofa.jpg 590w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/kofa-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/kofa-267x158.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Novak has taken the Ice Bucket Challenge to strike out ALS.<\/p>\n<p>The Serbian world no.1 had been nominated by a handful of individuals, including One Direction\u2019s Niall Horan, and tennis colleagues Bernard Tomic and Sabine Lisicki, and accepted the challenge on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Hello everybody, I want to thank all the good people for helping spread awareness about this noble cause,&#8221;<\/strong> he said, before challenging Michael Jordan, Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) and Austrian singer Conchita Wurst.<\/p>\n<p>Nole paused to do a little dance to &#8220;Ice, Ice Baby&#8221; in preparation, and continued the dance after being drenched with the icy water.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m proud to donate and be part of this great movement to defeat the disease,&#8221;<\/strong> Novak added in a Faceook post.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RV1JFT1rBAE\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The challenge raises awareness of the nature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The challenge raises awareness of the nature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":61004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101011485,101011482,101011483,101011484],"class_list":["post-61008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-conchita-wurst-en","tag-ice-bucket-challenge-en","tag-michael-jordan-en","tag-mr-bean-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61009,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61008\/revisions\/61009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}