{"id":28147,"date":"2018-03-16T03:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=28147"},"modified":"2018-03-15T22:55:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T05:55:48","slug":"a-record-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2018\/03\/16\/a-record-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"A record marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Jerusalem Marathon winner Kipkogey Shadrack (No. 1) led the field from the start.\u00a0<em>(photo from Ashernet)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28149\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mar-16-toc.16.286V4-Jerusalem.Start-of-half-marathon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28149\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mar-16-toc.16.286V4-Jerusalem.Start-of-half-marathon.jpg\" alt=\"photo - The half-marathon gets underway\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mar-16-toc.16.286V4-Jerusalem.Start-of-half-marathon.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mar-16-toc.16.286V4-Jerusalem.Start-of-half-marathon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mar-16-toc.16.286V4-Jerusalem.Start-of-half-marathon-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The half-marathon gets underway.\u00a0<em>(photo from Ashernet)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 35,000 runners, including some 4,000 from 72 countries outside Israel, participated March 8 in this year\u2019s Jerusalem Marathon \u2013 the largest to date. The winner of the main event was 27-year-old Kenyan runner Kipkogey Shadrack, who completed the course in 2:21.26. Participants set off opposite the Israel Museum in slightly overcast, but dry, weather. Many of the city\u2019s streets were closed from 5:30 a.m. and scheduled to reopen at 2:30 p.m. There were five other courses apart from the 42.2-kilometre main event: a half-marathon, a 10k, a 5k, a family race (1.7 km) and a community race (800 metres) for people with special needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem Marathon winner Kipkogey Shadrack (No. 1) led the field from the start.\u00a0(photo from Ashernet) More than 35,000 runners, including some 4,000 from 72 countries outside Israel, participated March 8 in this year\u2019s Jerusalem Marathon \u2013 the largest to date. The winner of the main event was 27-year-old Kenyan runner Kipkogey Shadrack, who completed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[4330,216,7964],"class_list":["post-28147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-marathon"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}