{"id":12835,"date":"2017-06-08T09:41:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=12835"},"modified":"2017-06-08T09:41:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:41:18","slug":"bit-by-bit-a-sondheim-ian-moment-of-putting-it-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=12835","title":{"rendered":"Bit By Bit – A Sondheim-ian Moment of Putting It Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re into the final countdown of prep for the inaugural Madagascar Marathon.<\/p>\n

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Marathon Tours\u00a0has sent me the paperwork and runner shirt:<\/p>\n

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A few weeks ago we got our visas sorted as we had been warned the visa on arrival can be a time-consuming series of frustrations. \u00a0So we’re all set there:<\/p>\n

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So far as I know, my plane ticket now has the missing “I” restored… yet I don’t know how much that ultimately will cost me. \u00a0All I see are “pending” charges on my Amex card for a $1 from Priceline… and I seriously doubt\u00a0that long bureaucratic nightmare is over.<\/p>\n

Mom, who had never seen the DreamWorks SKG film that clearly, uh, “inspired” the logo of the marathon, wanted to catch the movie before we left. \u00a0So we gave that a spin last night.<\/p>\n

I still need to pack and sort out a few things but I’m sadly coming down with a cold. \u00a0My throat is sore, my nose is stuffed, and my head is cloudy. \u00a0The Penguins of Madgascar summed it up nicely upon their arrival in Antarctica (Mom and I laughed so much at this throwaway joke that I made her a magnet to put on the fridge):<\/p>\n

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I’ve got three days and a wakeup before we leave so I’m popping echinacea, grape seed extract, and downing drugs like I was\u00a0Jamie Conway in Bright Lights, Big City<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Bit by bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re into the final countdown of prep for the inaugural Madagascar Marathon. Marathon Tours\u00a0has sent me the paperwork and runner shirt: A few weeks ago we got our visas sorted as we had been warned the visa on arrival can be a time-consuming series of frustrations. \u00a0So we’re all set there: So far as I […]<\/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-12835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835","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=12835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}