{"id":2335,"date":"2016-06-06T18:32:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2016-06-07T22:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T05:43:43","slug":"marathon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/06\/06\/marathon-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I lace up my trainers; the park beckons me.<\/p>\n<p>My new Runmaster 3000 watch. Mary&#8217;s times improved dramatically using<br \/>\nthe mind control feature. Now it&#8217;s my turn.<\/p>\n<p>A gust of wind blows the instructions out of my hand. Oh well. How<br \/>\ncomplicated can a running watch be?<\/p>\n<p>I press a button. My body starts stretching. \u201cRun.\u201d I do; my technique<br \/>\nis perfect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne mile completed; Nine hundred and ninety-nine miles remaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oops.<\/p>\n<p>I try to press the button, but my arms swing forwards and backwards<br \/>\nlike pistons. \u201cStop! Halt! Reset! Help!?!?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo miles completed; Nine hundred and ninety-eight miles remaining.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Ross Clement<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lace up my trainers; the park beckons me. My new Runmaster 3000 watch. Mary&#8217;s times improved dramatically using the mind control feature. Now it&#8217;s my turn. A gust of wind blows the instructions out of my hand. Oh well. How complicated can a running watch be? I press a button. My body starts stretching. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3367,4936,41,3060,4938,4935,1692,4939,4196,4937,1009,4934,2116,275],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-button","tag-feature","tag-guest-contributor","tag-instructions","tag-mile","tag-mind-control","tag-park","tag-pistons","tag-ross-clement","tag-technique","tag-technology","tag-trainers","tag-watch","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}