{"id":41723,"date":"2010-12-15T14:06:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=41723"},"modified":"2010-12-15T14:06:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T21:06:31","slug":"amputee-sets-out-to-complete-8-ironman-challenges-in-8-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=41723","title":{"rendered":"Amputee Sets Out to Complete 8 &#8216;Ironman&#8217; Challenges in 8 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 14px;\">To complete an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ironman,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0some say, is one of the most difficult athletic endeavors one can challenge their body to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 14px;\">To achieve the title of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ironman,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one must conquer a 2.4-mile swim, followed by a 112-mile bike ride, and then a marathon run of 26.2 miles &#8212; all in less than 17 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 14px;\">Well, one athlete has not only completed several \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ironman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d challenges, he competes on one leg\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/12\/14\/amputee-set-complete-ironman-challenges-months\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 14px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To complete an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ironman,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0some say, is one of the most difficult athletic endeavors one can challenge their body to do. To achieve the title of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ironman,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one must conquer a 2.4-mile swim, followed by a 112-mile bike ride, and then a marathon run of 26.2 miles &#8212; all in less than 17 hours. Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41725,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41723\/revisions\/41725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}