{"id":1236,"date":"2009-07-01T09:28:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T16:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2009-07-01T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T16:28:29","slug":"sarah-palin-the-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2009\/07\/01\/sarah-palin-the-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin the Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheryl sent me this really neat article<\/a> on Sarah Palin. Now, before you go — “ZOMG! I thought Sharool hated that woman, why is she reading about her!” — the article was posted on Runner’s World (August 2009, issue) and it covers SP’s running exploits.<\/p>\n

There’s one quote that I liked the best, though and I thought it sums up running events (and sports in general):<\/p>\n

Oh, thank God, [running is] nonpartisan. It doesn’t matter your background, your demographics, your race, your political affiliation\u2014it’s such a uniting, healthy, fun, awesome activity. It cracks me up going to some running event and seeing some dude who campaigned so hard against me, or a lady who’s been blogging some mean comments about me. But we’re all there together and we’re smiling and we’re having a good time because we’re going to do something healthy and active. We need more of that. That’s what sports are able to do. It’s a wonderful kind of diversion from the divisiveness that is politics or that is life.<\/p>\n

I guess one of the reasons why I’ve stuck to running — despite feeling bored when I first started running, I found the value in the peace one gets whilst running (i.e., you’re alone with your thoughts). Of course, it’s a welcome change when you’re running whilst chatting up a storm with someone, but ultimately, when else can you go out for 30 minutes without uttering a word and becoming fully aware with yourself leaving some of the stress of daily life behind. When I used to do my training runs\u00a0at and around Palos Verdes soaring above the Pacific Ocean to my right, I’d like just marvel at the beauty of nature… and that’s just<\/em> in PV.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I wish my mum was more active. She’s a smoker and doesn’t do any real exercise unless she’s walking around a mall… shopping! LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheryl sent me this really neat article on Sarah Palin. Now, before you go — “ZOMG! I thought Sharool hated that woman, why is she reading about her!” — the article was posted on Runner’s World (August 2009, issue) and it covers SP’s running exploits.
\nThere’s one quote that I liked the best, though and I read more »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[55,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}