{"id":11221,"date":"2017-04-11T09:18:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=11221"},"modified":"2017-04-11T09:18:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:18:46","slug":"b-minus-6-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=11221","title":{"rendered":"B-Minus 6 Days!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Boston Marathon Memories:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2012, The Boston Marathon was the culmination of my quest to run the 50 states.<\/p>\n<p>It was a primary selling point for fundraising to help support my bib sponsor, Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a celebration point for family and friends &#8212; Meg customized cowbells to give to people, both known to me and random strangers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0277-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0277-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0277-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0277-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0277-830x623.jpg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0277-230x173.jpg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0277-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0277.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On top of that, there were signs.\u00a0 That year it was 80 degrees+ at the start and only got hotter as the day wore on.\u00a0 More than usual, crowd support was needed to power through the heat.\u00a0 And to have my family and friends out there braving the sweltering temps made a huge difference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2012-04-16-Boston-Marathon-Pics-from-Jen-Scott-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11230\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2012-04-16-Boston-Marathon-Pics-from-Jen-Scott-5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2012-04-16-Boston-Marathon-Pics-from-Jen-Scott-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2012-04-16-Boston-Marathon-Pics-from-Jen-Scott-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2012-04-16-Boston-Marathon-Pics-from-Jen-Scott-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2012-04-16-Boston-Marathon-Pics-from-Jen-Scott-5-830x623.jpg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2012-04-16-Boston-Marathon-Pics-from-Jen-Scott-5-230x173.jpg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2012-04-16-Boston-Marathon-Pics-from-Jen-Scott-5-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2012-04-16-Boston-Marathon-Pics-from-Jen-Scott-5.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The countdown continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Marathon Memories: In 2012, The Boston Marathon was the culmination of my quest to run the 50 states. It was a primary selling point for fundraising to help support my bib sponsor, Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital. It was also a celebration point for family and friends &#8212; Meg customized cowbells to give to people, both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}