{"id":801,"date":"2022-07-20T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:52:14","slug":"first-time-ever-american-woman-wins-the-world-championship-in-the-shot-put","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"First time ever &#8211; American woman wins the world championship in the shot put."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>Note: Track and Field World Championships are every two years &#8211; second only in importance to the Olympics.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Great stuff. If you are wondering, the women&#39;s shot put weighs 8.8 lbs &#8211; the men&#39;s is 16 lbs. This is one of the two events Tim was excellent at (the other the javelin); all county in high school and all conference in college. So &#8211; Tom and Brigid do enjoy watching the field events&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tgc-k7gYmOU?controls=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: Track and Field World Championships are every two years &#8211; second only in importance to the Olympics. Great stuff. If you are wondering, the women&#39;s shot put weighs 8.8 lbs &#8211; the men&#39;s is 16 lbs. This is one of the two events Tim was excellent at (the other the javelin); all county in [&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-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6539,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/6539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}