{"id":1043,"date":"2008-07-04T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:32","slug":"somewhere-prefontaine-is-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere, Prefontaine Is Smiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a track and field fan to appreciate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktvb.com\/video\/index.html?nvid=259399\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/olympics\/beijing\/track\/2008-07-01-notes_N.htm\">Three Oregonians (Eugene residents, no less) sweep the men&#8217;s 800m at the trials.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefontainerun.com\/\">Prefontaine<\/a> is smiling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksymmonds.com\/\">Nick Symmonds&#8217;<\/a> finishing kick reminds me of another American from the past&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_Wottle\">Dave Wottle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_mckay\">Jim McKay<\/a> (God rest his soul) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5LHid-nC45k\">has the call<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--c5c1436f9b80d89cfed774bf826b8a54--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a track and field fan to appreciate this. Three Oregonians (Eugene residents, no less) sweep the men&#8217;s 800m at the trials. Somewhere, Prefontaine is smiling. Nick Symmonds&#8217; finishing kick reminds me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,54,68,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-nostalgia","category-running","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9378,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/9378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}