{"id":651,"date":"2011-03-16T22:50:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T02:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2011-03-16T22:57:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T02:57:28","slug":"mount-washington-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/mount-washington-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Washington \u2013 Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lottery for entry numbers for the Mount Washington Road Race was today, and I got a number! I ran Mount Washington for the first time last year, and when I got the email today telling me I got in again this year, I was ecstatic. Then, immediately, I thought about how hard running up the mountain is, and I almost wished I hadn&#8217;t gotten a number. If I had lost in the lottery, well that wouldn&#8217;t have been my fault, it was just chance.<\/p>\n<p>After watching me suffer and enjoy the run last year, Jodi decided she would like to take a crack at it too. Unfortunately, she didn&#8217;t get selected. It would have been fun to stand on the starting line together, but not this year.<\/p>\n<p>I ran 2:05 last year, so now I&#8217;ve got three months to lose a few pounds of useless fat &#8212; I&#8217;m on the cusp of qualifying as a Clydesdale &#8212; and try to get my legs and lungs in shape so I can try to come in under two hours. It&#8217;s important to have goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lottery for entry numbers for the Mount Washington Road Race was today, and I got a number! I ran Mount Washington for the first time last year, and when I got the email today telling me I got in again this year, I was ecstatic. Then, immediately, I thought about how hard running up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}