{"id":11834,"date":"2010-02-13T18:36:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T18:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/13\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-running-on-st-valentines-day\/"},"modified":"2010-02-13T18:36:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T18:36:40","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-running-on-st-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/13\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-running-on-st-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Running on St. Valentine’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

My training over and my carbo-loading done, I am now in the psych-up phase for tomorrow's Lost Dutchman marathon.  Will I be able to go the distance?  At the outset, I'll <\/font>Take It Easy<\/font><\/a> but then <\/font>Take It to the Limit.<\/font><\/a>  I will have no trouble with the first 20 miles, but the last 10 K I will be <\/font>Running on Empty<\/font><\/a>.  Question is whether I will be <\/font>Willin'<\/font><\/a> to keep on movin'?<\/font><\/p>\n

And while we're on the running them, let's not forget Del Shannon's <\/font>Runaway<\/font><\/a>, Roy Orbison's <\/font>Running Scared<\/font><\/a>, and Dion DiMucci's <\/font>Runaround Sue<\/font><\/a>.  And then there's <\/font>that Crystals number<\/font><\/a> the refrain of which sounds like 'They do run, run.'<\/font><\/p>\n

And tomorrow  being St Valentine's Day, three for my wife.  An old <\/font>Sam Cooke number<\/font><\/a>, a lovely <\/font>Shirelles tune<\/font><\/a>, and my <\/font>favorite<\/font><\/a> from the Seekers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My training over and my carbo-loading done, I am now in the psych-up phase for tomorrow's Lost Dutchman marathon.  Will I be able to go the distance?  At the outset, I'll Take It Easy but then Take It to the Limit.  I will have no trouble with the first 20 miles, but the last 10 … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Running on St. Valentine’s Day”<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11834","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=11834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}