{"id":1710,"date":"2011-11-30T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T20:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2011-11-30T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T20:43:39","slug":"i-decided-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/?p=1710","title":{"rendered":"I decided to run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my Aunt Nancy asked me to run a half marathon with her I laughed &#8211; and then I realized she was serious. On May 27, 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Team-Dancin-Machine\/302719083086739\">Team Dancin&#8217; Machine <\/a>will be running 13.1 miles for the American Cancer Society. And I will likely be scowling at my Aunt Nancy (who better be running right next to me) the entire time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been training for a little over a month now and I am feeling really good. I&#8217;m getting faster and running further. But the best part is I now feel like I&#8217;m running with a purpose. My grandfather lost his battle with cancer eleven years ago. For the past eleven years I&#8217;ve wished there was something I could have done, something that would have made a difference. Too many people have this feeling, too many people wish for one more day.<\/p>\n<p>Together with Team Dancin&#8217; Machine I&#8217;m running to try and create a world with less cancer and more birthdays. Every dollar you can donate will help me and my team run faster and further.<\/p>\n<p>Donations can be made <a href=\"http:\/\/main.acsevents.org\/goto\/kimberlylafoy\">here<\/a> or, contact me and I&#8217;ll send you a form to fill out and mail in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my Aunt Nancy asked me to run a half marathon with her I laughed &#8211; and then I realized she was serious. On May 27, 2012 Team Dancin&#8217; Machine will be running 13.1 miles for the American Cancer Society. And I will likely be scowling at my Aunt Nancy (who better be running right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-stuff-ive-done"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k.habbyshaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}