{"id":10383,"date":"2011-09-05T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/05\/the-frank-shorter-story\/"},"modified":"2011-09-05T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T14:30:33","slug":"the-frank-shorter-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/05\/the-frank-shorter-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frank Shorter Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c014e8b4b1595970d-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0154352ac000970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shorter\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0154352ac000970c\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0154352ac000970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Shorter\" \/><\/a> We who were swept up in the running boom of the 1970s for a lifetime of fitness and satisfaction owe a debt of gratitude to the runners and writers who popularized the sport.&#0160; The four who stand out most prominently in my memory, 37 summers after I first took to the roads, are the running writers <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/07\/jim-fixx-remembered.html\" target=\"_self\">Jim Fixx<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/02\/this-running-life-.html\" target=\"_self\">George Sheehan<\/a>, and the world-class competitors <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/04\/the-boston-marathon-and-the-return-of-boston-billy.html\" target=\"_self\">Bill Rodgers<\/a> and Frank Shorter.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shorter is often credited with being the father of the running boom due to his winning of Olympic gold at Munich in 1972 in the marathon.&#0160;&#0160; October&#39;s <em>Runner&#39;s World <\/em>features&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnersworld.com\/article\/0,7120,s6-243-297--14056-0,00.html\" target=\"_self\">a lengthy piece on Shorter <\/a>that tells of his triumphs but also of the physical and psychological abuse that he and his siblings received from their Jekyll-and-Hyde father.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We who were swept up in the running boom of the 1970s for a lifetime of fitness and satisfaction owe a debt of gratitude to the runners and writers who popularized the sport.&#0160; The four who stand out most prominently in my memory, 37 summers after I first took to the roads, are the running &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/05\/the-frank-shorter-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Frank Shorter Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running","category-tributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}