{"id":91,"date":"2014-04-14T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2014-04-14T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:50:26","slug":"playing-the-chicago-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Chicago Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am contemplating my first full marathon this fall. Due to my knee issue, a course without many hills is preferred. \u00a0The Chicago Marathon is a flat course, which would be perfect. \u00a0And it is considered one of the top 3 races in the country that are &#8220;must do&#8221; runs (the others being Boston and New York City).<\/p>\n<p>Due to its popularity in recent years, this year Chicago has decided to use a lottery system to select the majority of its runners. \u00a0It is a total random selection. \u00a0I heard that over 71,000 runners applied to run in the Chicago Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>About a month ago, I had entered the MCM lottery but was not selected. Hoping for better luck this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am contemplating my first full marathon this fall. Due to my knee issue, a course without many hills is preferred. \u00a0The Chicago Marathon is a flat course, which would be perfect. \u00a0And it is considered one of the top 3 races in the country that are &#8220;must do&#8221; runs (the others being Boston and New York City). Due to its popularity in recent years, this year Chicago has decided<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/?p=91\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FxFG-1t","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ejameswhite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}