{"id":2987,"date":"2008-07-02T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T02:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/a-fathers-love\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:41:05","slug":"a-fathers-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/a-fathers-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Father&#8217;s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iTHvTSBhl5s<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>My cousin sent me this. Dare you to watch it and not be moved&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A son asked asked his father, &#8216;Dad will you take part in a marathon with me?&#8217; The father who, despite having a heart condition, says &#8216;Yes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>They went on to complete the marathon together.<\/p>\n<p>Father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying &#8216;Yes&#8217; to his son&#8217;s request of going through another race together.<\/p>\n<p>One day, the son asked his father, &#8216;Dad, let&#8217;s join the Ironman together.&#8217; To which, his father, as always, said &#8216;Yes&#8217; too.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever. The race encompasses three endurance events of a 2.4 mile ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile bike ride, and ending with a 26.2 mile  marathon along the coast of the Big Island .<\/p>\n<p>Father and son went on to complete the race together. Watch the video to\u00c2\u00a0 see them both in action&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(If video is not showing on this page, visit http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iTHvTSBhl5s )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iTHvTSBhl5s My cousin sent me this. Dare you to watch it and not be moved&#8230; A son asked asked his father, &#8216;Dad will you take part in a marathon with me?&#8217; The father who, despite having a heart condition, says &#8216;Yes&#8217;. They went on to complete the marathon together. Father and son went on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-Mb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6622,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}