{"id":790848,"date":"2015-10-14T06:29:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T06:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=790848"},"modified":"2017-12-05T08:24:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:24:38","slug":"hi-fellow-runner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2015\/10\/14\/hi-fellow-runner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi, Fellow Runner&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, fellow runner.<\/p>\n<p>You just passed me. I was the one shuffling along, with the big butt, big gut, cherry red face, huffing and puffing, sweat running down my face, but by the grace of God, I am out in the Sacramento sun, aiming to get six miles today., (I managed five).<br \/>\nYou might have caught me when I was in a good groove. Listening to music on my headphones, I tend to make little &#8216;jazz hand&#8217; movements when I feel like dancing while running. When you pass me and say, &#8220;keep it<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0up, you are doing great!&#8221;, your words become music to my ears and they are added to the music, amping up my little &#8220;Dance Party, USA&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nYou might have caught me at a low point. The negatives roll around my head. Everything hurts. I&#8217;m tired. I think I bit off more than I could chew. Why am I doing this again? When you pass me and say, &#8220;keep it up, you are doing great!&#8221;, your words become medicine to my soul. As you run in front of me, I watch your gait, and for a few seconds, I match your stride and carriage. All the power, strength, and endurance you have is spread to me for a brief moment. It&#8217;s enough to redirect my thoughts back to the positive and I know I can finish what I started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nYou, just being you, just being out there, putting in your miles, makes all the difference to me. Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12118913_10206975050127013_120973793162828919_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-790849\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12118913_10206975050127013_120973793162828919_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"12118913_10206975050127013_120973793162828919_n\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12118913_10206975050127013_120973793162828919_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/12118913_10206975050127013_120973793162828919_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, fellow runner. You just passed me. I was the one shuffling along, with the big butt, big gut, cherry red face, huffing and puffing, sweat running down my face, but by the grace of God, I am out in the Sacramento sun, aiming to get six miles today., (I managed five). You might have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-get-active","category-personal-reflections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793525,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790848\/revisions\/793525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}