{"id":8167,"date":"2010-03-09T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2010-03-09T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:28:06","slug":"whereby-i-announce-my-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8167","title":{"rendered":"Whereby I Announce My Intentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you tell people what you plan to do, it increases your motivation to follow-through. Therefore, I'm telling you that I'm going to <a href='http:\/\/www.coolrunning.com\/engine\/2\/2_3\/181.shtml'>follow this<\/a> so I can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/events\/courses\/maps\/showMap.asp?courseID=NC09103NW\">run this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I ran it two years ago, and got my ass kicked. I skipped the next year, because I wasn't running at the time; but I felt bummed about it because the race takes place in our neighborhood and I saw people who could barely walk but were nonetheless out there doing it, while I loafed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.insidesocal.com\/tomhoffarth\/homer_running.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I haven't run since October, after a third strained calf muscle in a month knocked my enthusiasm for running to zero. But, it's time to get back out there. <\/p>\n<p>I still haven't yet decided if it will be <a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?cat=35\">shoes or no shoes<\/a> - no shoes is still enticing, but I never strained a calf running in shoes. Whatever I decide, I'm going to run this hilly, early morning, get beat by 13 year old girls, wife is still asleep and the cats can't wave from the porch even if they wanted to, race. <\/p>\n<p>This I declare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you tell people what you plan to do, it increases your motivation to follow-through. Therefore, I'm telling you that I'm going to follow this so I can run this. I ran it two years ago, and got my ass kicked. I skipped the next year, because I wasn't running at the time; but I [&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-8167","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\/8167","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=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}