{"id":1122,"date":"2008-08-10T05:19:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:16","slug":"old-olympic-dreams-never-die-they-just-go-slower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Old Olympic Dreams Never Die&#8211;They Just Go Slower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah yes, the ol&#8217; missing first paragraph is back:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My Olympic dream died sometime around 1978. The reality was that I could barely crack the top 10 of an average high school cross country race, so there was little hope of me ever mounting the winner&#8217;s platform and hearing &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8221; in my lifetime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/opinion\/huntsvilletimes\/index.ssf?\/base\/opinion\/121835971783010.xml&#038;coll=1\">here&#8217;s the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BONUS:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GPB7r0UpNIE&#038;feature=related\">Here&#8217;s some footage of me<\/a> running the last lap in that charity fundraiser at Harding University in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L-7Vu7cqB20&#038;feature=related\">here I am today<\/a> with my Sunday morning running buddies, &#8220;Team Wannabe&#8221; (that&#8217;s actual speed, not slow-mo).<\/p>\n<p>Old Olympic dreams never die&#8211;they just go slower.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--77505fed6dcdb1b3d19f67bd8aa67512-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--4ee38ed94974d04306ab490a42592c48-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--96546862257aebdc327094b6543fd201-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--96546862257aebdc327094b6543fd201-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--77505fed6dcdb1b3d19f67bd8aa67512-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--96546862257aebdc327094b6543fd201--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah yes, the ol&#8217; missing first paragraph is back: My Olympic dream died sometime around 1978. The reality was that I could barely crack the top 10 of an average high school cross country race, so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,23,32,92,99,26,54,68,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-current-events","category-harding-university","category-huntsville-times-community-columns","category-jim-ryun","category-movies","category-nostalgia","category-running","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","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=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9347,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/9347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}