{"id":349,"date":"2012-07-09T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=349"},"modified":"2012-07-09T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:03:09","slug":"olympic-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a0Rest day!<\/p>\n<p>The Olympics are coming up and I am getting excited. \u00a0For the first time, I wish I had a television because I would like to watch the running events. \u00a0But I do not, so plan B.<\/p>\n<p>They have streaming to your computer for only $4.99 per event. \u00a0That could get expensive because I want to watch men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s events~primarily the 5,000m, the 10,000m and the marathon. \u00a0That is three events multiplied by two genders at five bucks a pop&#8230;you can to the math. \u00a0It is not that I have an inflated opinion of our medal prospects or anything, it is just that I have actually participated in two of those distances in the past year and I want to see how it is really done.<\/p>\n<p>I subscribe to Running Times magazine and they had an article by Don Kardong in their most recent issue. \u00a0If you remember, he ran the marathon in the 1976 Olympics and missed a medal by only three seconds. \u00a0That had to hurt! \u00a0I do not know it there will be any real heart breakers like that this year but if there is, I do not want to miss it!<\/p>\n<p>So, I am back to my original problem. \u00a0Do I spend the money on live stream feed or read about it the next day in the paper? \u00a0We will see&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/mm\/Photo\/sport\/General\/01\/25\/28\/63\/1252863_M03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a0Rest day! The Olympics are coming up and I am getting excited. \u00a0For the first time, I wish I had a television because I would like to watch the running events. \u00a0But I do not, so plan B. They have streaming to your computer for only $4.99 per event. \u00a0That could get expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}