{"id":3124,"date":"2014-12-21T18:17:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T18:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2014-12-21T18:17:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T18:17:39","slug":"parkrun-december-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3124","title":{"rendered":"parkrun &#8211; December 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last parkrun before Christmas always has a seasonal theme. \u00a0Many runners come dressed as Santas, elves, angels, reindeer: the list is endless. \u00a0There is a &#8220;secret santa&#8221; pile of presents; many cakes and the best fancy dress receives a bottle of bubbly. \u00a0This year, <a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/parkrun-band.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3123\" alt=\"parkrun band\" src=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/parkrun-band-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/parkrun-band-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/parkrun-band.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>there was even a brass band playing carols, and the music could be heard all round the course.<\/p>\n<p>And there was also running. \u00a0Peter Ward was first home, in 19.09, followed by Gavin Jones and Mark Mathews. \u00a0First lady was first timer, at Forest of Dean parkrun, Nicola Sheehan. \u00a0125 runners completed the 5k course. \u00a0These included the latest batch from Forest of Dean AC&#8217;s 0-5 programme. \u00a0The aim of this is to enable people who are currently non-runners to be able to complete a 5k run after 9 weeks of training. \u00a0The next course begins alongside Lydney Boating Lake on December 29th at 6:30. \u00a0All welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/parkrun-start-20.12.14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3122\" alt=\"parkrun start 20.12.14\" src=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/parkrun-start-20.12.14.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/parkrun-start-20.12.14.jpg 960w, http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/parkrun-start-20.12.14-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last parkrun before Christmas always has a seasonal theme. \u00a0Many runners come dressed as Santas, elves, angels, reindeer: the list is endless. \u00a0There is a &#8220;secret santa&#8221; pile of presents; many cakes and the best fancy dress receives a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fodac.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}