{"id":697049,"date":"2010-03-21T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T17:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fc5e845970c"},"modified":"2010-03-21T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T17:52:23","slug":"l-a-marathon-wesley-korir-is-champ-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697049","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Marathon: Wesley Korir is champ &#8212; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a95ef12e970b-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LA Marathon\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a95ef12e970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a95ef12e970b-800wi\" title=\"LA Marathon\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Pulling away from a pair of fellow Kenyan countrymen in the 25th mile, Wesley Korir defended his Los Angeles Marathon title Sunday morning by winning in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third-fastest time in race history and about a minute behind the 2:08:24 Korir ran last year in setting the race record.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/sports_blog\/2010\/03\/korir-repeats-as-los-angeles-marathon-champion.html\">Fabulous Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Ben Bolch<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Wesley Korir crosses the L.A. Marathon finish line. Credit: Jay L. Clendenin \/ Los Angeles Times <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulling away from a pair of fellow Kenyan countrymen in the 25th mile, Wesley Korir defended his Los Angeles Marathon title Sunday morning by winning in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 20 seconds. It was the third-fastest time in race history and about a minute behind the 2:08:24 Korir ran last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VkJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}