{"id":3565,"date":"2005-04-10T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.marathontours.com\/the-race-of-his-life\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T08:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T12:53:32","slug":"the-race-of-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/the-race-of-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Race of His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thom Gilligan read the e-mail and shook his head in disbelief. Here was yet another applicant for the 2005 Last Marathon, the extraordinary race in Antarctica that Gilligan had conceived a decade ago. No surprise there; while the event had been closed out for more than a year, adventure-minded runners were still begging for a chance. The shock was that this guy, 47-year-old William Tan of Singapore, proposed to do the 26.2 miles of loose rock, glacial streams, and ice in a wheelchair &#8211; a feat never attempted, never suggested in the previous six editions of the race. &#8220;I thought, no way,&#8221; Gilligan says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4018,"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":[76],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-coverage","tag-seven-continents-club"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","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=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathontours.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}