{"id":8853,"date":"2013-04-15T13:12:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/15\/the-boston-marathon\/"},"modified":"2013-04-15T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T13:12:38","slug":"the-boston-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/15\/the-boston-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boston Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Today is Patriot&#39;s Day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the day of the annual running of the Boston Marathon.&#0160; My mind drifts back to 1980 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnersworld.com\/rt-miscellaneous\/rosie-ruiz-tries-steal-boston-marathon\" target=\"_self\">Rosie Ruiz<\/a> who &#39;won&#39; that year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Boston Billy, <a href=\"http:\/\/onlyagame.wbur.org\/2013\/04\/13\/marathon-man-book\" target=\"_self\">I see<\/a>, has a book out.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/04\/the-boston-marathon-and-the-return-of-boston-billy.html\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is a post of mine from four years ago on Rodgers.&#0160; It includes a nice inspirational passage from George Sheehan.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/02\/this-running-life-.html\" target=\"_self\">Remember him<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">UPDATE (4\/16)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Bill Rodgers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/boston-marathon-bombing-rodgers\/2013\/04\/15\/id\/499574\" target=\"_self\">comments<\/a> on the bombing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><br \/>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c017d42d971e0970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boston-Marathon-bombing-runners-jpg\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c017d42d971e0970c\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c017d42d971e0970c-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Boston-Marathon-bombing-runners-jpg\" \/><\/a><\/span><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c017d42d971e0970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><\/a><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c017d42d971e0970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><\/a>Tony H. e-mails: &quot;I wonder if we can now expect Diane Feinstein to introduce a bill in the Senate to ban pressure cookers.&quot;&#0160; I wouldn&#39;t put it past that idiot.&#0160; A typical liberal, for her it is the weapon not the wielder that is the focus of attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We ought not not speculate about the identity of the perpetrator or perpetrators.&#0160; Let the investigation proceed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Patriot&#39;s Day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the day of the annual running of the Boston Marathon.&#0160; My mind drifts back to 1980 and Rosie Ruiz who &#39;won&#39; that year. Boston Billy, I see, has a book out.&#0160; Here is a post of mine from four years ago on Rodgers.&#0160; It includes a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/15\/the-boston-marathon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Boston Marathon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","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=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}