{"id":11,"date":"2014-03-03T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2014-07-12T17:39:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T21:39:59","slug":"running","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a casual runner off and on for years. I mostly used to run 2-3 miles about 4 times a week. It was not fun. It was boring, and I looked at it as necessary to lose weight and to be able to eat what I want.\u00a0 I would always eventually develop shin splints, and then running would fall by the wayside for weeks to months, depending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But then I became determined to beat the shin splints.\u00a0 I used some basic orthotic inserts in my shoes, ran only every other day, sometimes less, and I started out with low mileage &#8211; 1 mile.\u00a0 Gradually I increased my miles, still allowing plenty of rest days too.\u00a0 Eventually I ran 5 miles&#8230;..then 6&#8230;&#8230;then 7&#8230;&#8230;then 8, and suddenly, I was thinking about running a half marathon.\u00a0 After that, I was addicted to\u00a0running.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-img_412012214226483.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"IMG_412012214226483.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-img_412012214226483.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2013 Historic Half Marathon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-img_411783837090253.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"IMG_411783837090253.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-img_411783837090253.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n2013 Charlottesville Fall Classic Half Marathon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a casual runner off and on for years. I mostly used to run 2-3 miles about 4 times a week. It was not fun. It was boring, and I looked at it as necessary to lose weight and to be able to eat what I want.\u00a0 I would always eventually develop shin splints, and then running would fall by the wayside for weeks to months, depending.\u00a0 But<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/?page_id=11\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4FxFG-b","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}