{"id":1842,"date":"2016-12-31T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:53:18","slug":"ed-whitlock-85-year-old-marathoner-continues-setting-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Ed Whitlock 85 year old marathoner continues setting records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Great article in the NY Times about this guy. Takes about ten minutes to read. Hope for us all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb0964b6f7970d-200wi.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13407\" title=\"Ed Whitlock,_September_2012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb0964b6f7970d-200wi.png 200w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb0964b6f7970d-200wi-152x300.png 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/28\/sports\/ed-whitlock-marathon-running.html?_r=0\">&#8220;85-Year-Old Marathoner Is So Fast That Even Scientists Marvel<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are biological factors; I\u2019m not na\u00efve about that,\u201d Joyner said. \u201cBut the message with these people is not that they\u2019re freaks. It is that a whole lot of aging, with a bit of luck, is under some volitional control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great article in the NY Times about this guy. Takes about ten minutes to read. Hope for us all! &#8220;85-Year-Old Marathoner Is So Fast That Even Scientists Marvel&#8220; \u201cThere are biological factors; I\u2019m not na\u00efve about that,\u201d Joyner said. \u201cBut the message with these people is not that they\u2019re freaks. It is that a whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13408,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/13408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}