{"id":3456,"date":"2012-04-08T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2012-04-08T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T16:47:15","slug":"hail-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/hail-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ca1207-A6169-marathon-group.jpg\" alt=\"CHO marathon\"><br \/>\nWatched <a href=\"http:\/\/charlottesvillemarathon.com\/\">Charlottesville marathon<\/a> runners in their twenty-first mile course down Woolen Mills Road Saturday. I try to avoid sport similies, metaphors and analogies, they are verbal shorthand, they cheapen speech. (I&#8217;ve recently received a lot of schooling on the Creed of Golf so I have little appetite for hearing sports=life.)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ca1207-A6144-marathon.jpg\" alt=\"wounded warrior program t-shirt\"><br \/>\nI admire the grit of marathon runners, their persistence. One foot in front of the other. To the end.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ca1205-A6095-wx-sophie-mirror.jpg\" alt=\"wx sophie hallway\"\nHowever you run, whatever your race. Doing what you do.\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ca1207-A6186-marathon-shoes.jpg\" alt=\"airborne\"><br \/>\nlife is like that<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ca1206-A6107-egte-walker.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched Charlottesville marathon runners in their twenty-first mile course down Woolen Mills Road Saturday. I try to avoid sport similies, metaphors and analogies, they are verbal shorthand, they cheapen speech. (I&#8217;ve recently received a lot of schooling on the Creed of Golf so I have little appetite for hearing sports=life.) I admire the grit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/hail-mary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hail Mary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}