{"id":45030691,"date":"2008-03-14T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mikehedman.com\/2008\/03\/funny-thing-happened-on-my-way-to.html"},"modified":"2013-05-23T04:43:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T04:43:42","slug":"200803funny-thing-happened-on-my-way-to-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/200803funny-thing-happened-on-my-way-to-html\/","title":{"rendered":"A funny thing happened on my way to Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I finished IronMan Couer d&#8217;Alene last year, I expected that April 21, 2008 would be my return trip to the Boston Marathon&#8230;but this time as a competitor.  While at Boston University a brzillion years ago I soaked in the race, and this year was supposed to be my turn to run.<\/p>\n<p \/>But then over the summer I did an open water swim in a race that had a guided blind athlete competing.  Long story short, I&#8217;m going back to CDA this year in support of the C Different Foundation and their exciting work for blind athletes.  (There&#8217;s a link to C Different&#8217;s web site over on the right side of this page.)<\/p>\n<p \/>So Boston will have to wait until next year.  And yes, in case you&#8217;re wondering about the title of this blog &#8211; the Western States 100 will slide another year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"http:\/\/mikehedman.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/683e3-990847599015857623-6585875700480109731.gif\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I finished IronMan Couer d&#8217;Alene last year, I expected that April 21, 2008 would be my return trip to the Boston Marathon&#8230;but this time as a competitor. While at Boston University a brzillion years ago I soaked in the race, and this year wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45030691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kdl1-32Wxt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45030691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45030691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45030691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88295670,"href":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45030691\/revisions\/88295670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45030691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45030691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikehedman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45030691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}