{"id":9768,"date":"2012-04-16T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/16\/if-boston-is-athens-hopkinton-is-marathon\/"},"modified":"2012-04-16T07:00:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T07:00:42","slug":"if-boston-is-athens-hopkinton-is-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/16\/if-boston-is-athens-hopkinton-is-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"If Boston is Athens, Hopkinton is Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It is Patriot&#39;s Day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the day of the 116th running of the Boston Marathon.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonglobe.com\/sports\/specials\/boston-marathon\/2012\/04\/16\/marathon-officials-continue-warn-runners-about-heat\/nFhY6rd9zLRx8uYEXwYeyK\/story.html\" target=\"_self\">It&#39;ll be a hot one<\/a> with a predicted high of 84.&#0160; The 26.2 miles exact a terrible toll on the mortal coil.&#0160; Remember Pheidippides! who collapsed at the Athenian end of his run.&#0160; It may have been <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/09\/-the-frank-shorter-story.html\" target=\"_self\">Frank Shorter<\/a> who quipped, at the 20-mile mark, &quot;Why couldn&#39;t Pheidippides have died now?&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Will <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/04\/the-boston-marathon-and-the-return-of-boston-billy.html\" target=\"_self\">Boston Billy<\/a> be running today?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Patriot&#39;s Day in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the day of the 116th running of the Boston Marathon.&#0160; It&#39;ll be a hot one with a predicted high of 84.&#0160; The 26.2 miles exact a terrible toll on the mortal coil.&#0160; Remember Pheidippides! who collapsed at the Athenian end of his run.&#0160; It may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/16\/if-boston-is-athens-hopkinton-is-marathon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If Boston is Athens, Hopkinton is 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-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","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=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}