{"id":1141,"date":"2008-08-15T11:53:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T16:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:15","slug":"small-world-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Small World, Eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out Margaret Hoelzer isn&#8217;t the only athlete with North Alabama ties competing in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waff.com\/global\/story.asp?s=8844110&#038;ClientType=Printable\">Toyin Augustus<\/a> is a Nigerian 100 meter hurdler who prepped at and ran track for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsv.k12.al.us\/schools\/high\/ghs\/\">Grissom High School<\/a> (Number One and Three&#8217;s alma mater) prior to competing at Penn State.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdaily.com\/article\/20080808\/NEWS\/808080321\/0\/FRONTPAGE\">Julianne Kirchner<\/a> is a 50 meter freestyle swimmer from the Marshall Islands whose parents grew up in North Alabama and attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.una.edu\/\">UNA. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>(UPDATE 8\/16: You can read how her race went <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/sports\/huntsvilletimes\/index.ssf?\/base\/sports\/1218878140262030.xml&#038;coll=1\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Why the Marshall Islands? Julianne (age 16) has lived most of her life on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kwajalein\">Kwajalein Island<\/a>, and if you&#8217;re from Huntsville, you probably know at least one rocket scientist in your circle who has spent some time in that distant atoll.<\/p>\n<p>Her family took a sabbatical a few years back in Huntsville and for a while she was a part of our homeschooling group and an acquaintance of Number Two Son.<\/p>\n<p>Small world, eh?\n<\/p>\n<p><!--5d5ca75b69f56b7b21a83ec046fe014c-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--37994afd974d64b735234bca86486cec-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--37994afd974d64b735234bca86486cec-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--5d5ca75b69f56b7b21a83ec046fe014c--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out Margaret Hoelzer isn&#8217;t the only athlete with North Alabama ties competing in Beijing. Toyin Augustus is a Nigerian 100 meter hurdler who prepped at and ran track for Grissom High School (Number One&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,23,48,77,20,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-beijing-olympics","category-current-events","category-family","category-grissom-soccer","category-huntsville","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","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=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9328,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/9328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}