{"id":848,"date":"2015-10-01T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T12:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2016-06-17T13:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T13:48:08","slug":"heading-to-chicago-marathon-deena-kastor-and-joan-benoit-samuelson-are-fast-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Heading to Chicago Marathon, Deena Kastor and Joan Benoit Samuelson are Fast Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runnersworld.com\/sites\/runnersworld.com\/files\/styles\/article_main_image_2200px\/public\/articles\/2015\/09\/kastorbenoitomt08.jpg?itok=T5Tst18e\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" \/>In 1984, 11-year-old Deena Kastor sat in her living room with her parents, eyes glued to the first women\u2019s Olympic Marathon. American Joan Benoit Samuelson emerged from the tunnel into the Los Angeles Coliseum to claim the gold, waving her white hat. \u201cNo matter what my profession turned out to be in life, her performance that day would\u2019ve inspired me to be better,\u201d Kastor said during a recent visit to Chicago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnersworld.com\/chicago-marathon\/deena-kastor-and-joan-benoit-samuelson-are-fast-friends\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article for Runner&#8217;s World.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984, 11-year-old Deena Kastor sat in her living room with her parents, eyes glued to the first women\u2019s Olympic Marathon. American Joan Benoit Samuelson emerged from the tunnel into the Los Angeles Coliseum to claim the gold, waving her white hat. \u201cNo matter what my profession turned out to be in life, her performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,50,258,172],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-runners-world","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-marathon","tag-elite-athletes","tag-running","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}