She tried soccer one year in her hometown of St. Louis in the late 1970s, but that comment \u2014 you run funny \u2014 embarrassed her beyond belief. She internalized it and told no one, not even her parents. She never played organized sports again. \u201cI lived with it literally my whole life,\u201d she says. \u201cI carried that story \u2014 I\u2019m not an athlete.\u201d Forty years later, she carries a different story. On March 18, now Karen Hohertz-Jacobs, crossed the finish line of a marathon held on King George Island off the coast of Antarctica. That race completed her quest to run a marathon on all seven continents, a journey she started less than a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
She tried soccer one year in her hometown of St. Louis in the late 1970s, but that comment \u2014 you run funny \u2014 embarrassed her beyond belief. She internalized it and told no one, not even her parents. She never played organized sports again. \u201cI lived with it literally my whole life,\u201d she says. \u201cI carried that story \u2014 I\u2019m not an athlete.\u201d Forty years later, she carries a different story. On March 18, now Karen Hohertz-Jacobs, crossed the finish line of a marathon held on King George Island off the coast of Antarctica. That race completed her quest to run a marathon on all seven continents, a journey she started less than a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}