{"id":20155,"date":"2017-12-05T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=20155"},"modified":"2017-12-05T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T01:52:27","slug":"more-stringent-checks-for-running-than-for-gunning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=20155","title":{"rendered":"Harder to run than it is to buy a gun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2018 I\u2019m running a marathon at an Air Force base in Warner Robins, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The race organizers just sent me the following email:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/E8156C97-2A55-40A7-8E21-A8198D76D0CC.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20161 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/E8156C97-2A55-40A7-8E21-A8198D76D0CC-340x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/E8156C97-2A55-40A7-8E21-A8198D76D0CC-340x1024.jpeg 340w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/E8156C97-2A55-40A7-8E21-A8198D76D0CC-768x2316.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/E8156C97-2A55-40A7-8E21-A8198D76D0CC-830x2503.jpeg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/E8156C97-2A55-40A7-8E21-A8198D76D0CC-230x694.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/E8156C97-2A55-40A7-8E21-A8198D76D0CC-350x1055.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/E8156C97-2A55-40A7-8E21-A8198D76D0CC.jpeg 1727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure, but I think there\u00a0would be less checks for me to buy a gun than it will be for me to run this marathon.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a crazy, crazy, seriously messed up thing to think about.<\/p>\n<p>And for the record &#8211; background check away, Warners Air Force Base. \u00a0Most of my\u00a0skeletons aren\u2019t in the closet \u2014 they\u2019re featured\u00a0here\u00a0on this blog already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2018 I\u2019m running a marathon at an Air Force base in Warner Robins, Georgia. The race organizers just sent me the following email: &nbsp; I\u2019m not sure, but I think there\u00a0would be less checks for me to buy a gun than it will be for me to run this marathon. That\u2019s a crazy, [&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-20155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155","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=20155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}