{"id":1119,"date":"2011-01-22T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:03:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:03:06","slug":"once-a-runner-by-john-l-parker-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/once-a-runner.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/once-a-runner.jpg\" width=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>My brother Bob, a huge runner from when running wasn&#8217;t cool, gave me this book. It was written back in 1978 and is recently back in print.<\/p>\n<p>It is novel about running and runners written back during the days of &#8220;no pain, no gain&#8221; and &#8220;pain is what weakness feels like as it leaves the body,&#8221; and &#8220;sweat is just your fat cells crying.&#8221; The plot doesn&#8217;t really matter, it is about running by real runners.<\/p>\n<p>The book starts our really slow. One problem is that the author seems to have gotten a brand new thesaurus and is really giving it a workout plus he is pulling the stops on every simile, metaphor, adjective, and adverb he has ever heard about. About halfway through the book though the author starts writing in a more natural style and the story grabs you and pulls you through to the end.<\/p>\n<p>The book is about obsession, dedication, and hard work and has the best description of running a race I&#8217;ve ever read (not that I would know a thing about running a race.)<\/p>\n<p>Buy  this book (or get it from your library), and read it. You&#8217;ll like it.<\/p>\n<p>I rate it 3.5 stars out of 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Bob, a huge runner from when running wasn&#8217;t cool, gave me this book. It was written back in 1978 and is recently back in print. It is novel about running and runners written back during the days of &#8220;no pain, no gain&#8221; and &#8220;pain is what weakness feels like as it leaves the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}