{"id":989,"date":"2009-01-03T23:46:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T04:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=989"},"modified":"2009-01-13T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T12:40:07","slug":"a-new-favorite-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/a-new-favorite-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Favorite Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27968250@N06\/2607832442\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block; width: 114px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27968250@N06\/2607832442\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mississippi &amp; Minnesota Rivers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3259\/2607832442_41783102d8_m.jpg?resize=104%2C78\" alt=\"Mississippi &amp; Minnesota Rivers\" width=\"104\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27968250@N06\/2607832442\">crossn81<\/a> via Flickr<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This quote gives me and my Minnesota brethren hope! Well and I guess anyone who runs through the winter!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race. &#8211; <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Emil Z\u00e1topek\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emil_Z%C3%A1topek\">Emil Zatopek<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Runner&#8217;s World&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runnersworld.com\/newsletter\/0,7127,,00.html\">Quote of the day<\/a> (aka 101 Kicks in the Butt).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The quote is extra special on a day like today:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/running\/images\/jan13weather.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/12afed95-eb70-41bb-8319-5e96ae131b86\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by crossn81 via Flickr This quote gives me and my Minnesota brethren hope! Well and I guess anyone who runs through the winter! There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race. &#8211; Emil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[154,381],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-legends","tag-minnesota","tag-runners-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-fX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1277,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/world-no-tobacco-day-5k\/","url_meta":{"origin":989,"position":0},"title":"World No Tobacco Day 5K","author":"crossn81","date":"April 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Want to help low-income children who suffer from persistent asthma? 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It is a little hard for me to hit the trails very often since we only have 1 car and I prefer to run in the mornings.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Course Comments&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Course Comments","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/category\/course-comments\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/running\/images\/pikeisland82008.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}