{"id":788,"date":"2013-04-11T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/?p=788"},"modified":"2015-10-11T06:26:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:26:50","slug":"1935-comrades-marathon-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/2013\/04\/11\/1935-comrades-marathon-humour\/","title":{"rendered":"1935 Comrades Marathon humour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">\u00a0\u201cAs one would expect in an atmosphere charge with common suffering and endeavour, there is a lot of spontaneous, unconscious humour of the type that the written record cannot adequately capture. One pictures the exhausted 1935 athlete lying on the roadside on Alverstone Hill with his legs stretched up the bank for greater relief.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">A motorbike came racing around the corner. There was to be a bike race the next weekend on the same route. It nearly hit the nearly upside down runner. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">The writer remembers how the athlete \u201cpromptly forgot his weariness and ran off as hard as he could\u201d. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">(Story from The Comrades Story, Morris Alexander)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u201cAs one would expect in an atmosphere charge with common suffering and endeavour, there is a lot of spontaneous, unconscious humour of the type that the written record cannot adequately capture. One pictures the exhausted 1935 athlete lying on the roadside on Alverstone Hill with his legs stretched up the bank for greater relief.\u201d \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[10,211,15],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-story-of-us","tag-comrades","tag-humour","tag-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}