{"id":1132,"date":"2006-07-26T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T15:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2006-07-26T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T15:18:30","slug":"crazy-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1132","title":{"rendered":"Crazy People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060725\/sp_nm\/athletics_run_dc\">these freaks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>The longest foot race in the world is 3,100 miles, long enough to stretch from New York to Los Angeles. Those who run it choose a different route: they circle one city block in Queens -- for two months straight.<\/p>\n<p>The athletes lap their block more than 5,000 times. They wear out 12 pairs of shoes. They run more than two marathons daily. In the heat and rain of a New York summer, they stop for virtually nothing except to sleep between midnight and 6 a.m.<\/ul>\n<p>Then there's Floyd Landis, the winner of this year's Tour de France... he has a disease that is destroying his hip. His solution: work harder, to \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2006\/07\/10\/sports\/web.0710landis.php\">wear a useful groove<\/a> in the bone and cartilage of his damaged joint\". (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/byneddiejingo.blogspot.com\/\">Neddie<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I consider myself a fucking champion when I manage a 5 mile run on the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, these freaks: The longest foot race in the world is 3,100 miles, long enough to stretch from New York to Los Angeles. Those who run it choose a different route: they circle one city block in Queens -- for two months straight. The athletes lap their block more than 5,000 times. They wear out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}