{"id":437,"date":"2014-03-14T05:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T05:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2014-03-14T05:45:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T05:45:54","slug":"the-winners-are-in-but-the-race-is-not-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/14\/the-winners-are-in-but-the-race-is-not-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The winners are in, but the race is not over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God loves a working man.\u00a0 And we all love the brave mushers on the Iditarod trail.\u00a0 Winning takes skill and courage and lucky and determination and all the ideals of a champion.\u00a0 Winning is great.\u00a0 But, I feel drawn to the finishers.\u00a0 Those willing to stick it out.\u00a0 Complete the race.\u00a0 Make the end of the trail. See it thru and deliver that serum to Nome.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m thinking about this because The old gang all pulled out and it&#8217;s all rookies in line for the Red Lantern.\u00a0 Last year there were a few vets in the pack and I imagined the stories told and memories relived of past Iditarod Glory.\u00a0 But this year is all rookies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisbetnorris.blogspot.com\/\">Lisbet Norris<\/a> (r) and <a href=\"http:\/\/buserdog.com\/\">Elliot Anderson<\/a> (r) could take home the red lantern.\u00a0 These two have different backgrounds, but both young and both rookies.<\/p>\n<p>cheer them on!\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad to know they are out there and I hope they make it safe to Nome with stories to tell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God loves a working man.\u00a0 And we all love the brave mushers on the Iditarod trail.\u00a0 Winning takes skill and courage and lucky and determination and all the ideals of a champion.\u00a0 Winning is great.\u00a0 But, I feel drawn to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/14\/the-winners-are-in-but-the-race-is-not-over\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskagold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}