{"id":2645,"date":"2013-11-05T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:56:37","slug":"oldest-woman-86-to-run-the-nyc-marathon-sunday-died-the-next-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"Oldest woman (86) to run the NYC marathon Sunday, died the next day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She had fallen during the race and hit her head, but finished and seemed OK. Not bad though; finishing a marathon at 86 &#8211; in good shape her whole life &#8211; she looks great in the picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/oldest-woman-new-york-city-marathon-dies-86-article-1.1507052\" target=\"_self\">Joy Johnson, oldest woman to run New York City Marathon, dies at 86  <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Johnson, of San Jose, Calif., had stumbled and hit her head on the road<br \/>\naround the 20th mile, said her sister, Faith Anderson, 83, who<br \/>\naccompanied Johnson to New York.<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none; padding-left: 30px;\">******<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none; padding-left: 30px;\">On Monday morning, after the two sisters returned from their annual<br \/>\npost-marathon visit to the \u201cToday\u201d show crowd at Rockefeller Center,<br \/>\nJohnson said she was tired and lay down on her bed at the Roosevelt<br \/>\nHotel in Manhattan. She didn&#39;t wake up. She was declared dead at<br \/>\nBellevue Hospital, Anderson said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She had fallen during the race and hit her head, but finished and seemed OK. Not bad though; finishing a marathon at 86 &#8211; in good shape her whole life &#8211; she looks great in the picture. Joy Johnson, oldest woman to run New York City Marathon, dies at 86 Johnson, of San Jose, Calif., [&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-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","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=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}