{"id":3036,"date":"2012-09-01T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T19:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/w\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2012-09-02T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:05:49","slug":"2012-9-1-swimming-great-distances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/?p=3036","title":{"rendered":"2012.9.1 &#8211; Swimming Great Distances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some guy was trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamiepatrick.com\">swim around Lake Tahoe<\/a> but he didn&#8217;t complete it because of winds.  That won&#8217;t stop me.  Just like the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il hit 11 (ELEVEN) holes in one in 1 (ONE) round of golf and shattered any previous record, I will take to the lake and swim the distance of 68 miles in a few hours, breaking any known record.  But first, I tell my mom which way I&#8217;m going to swim.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/?attachment_id=3039\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3039\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2136blog-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2012.9.1 - Which Way\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2136blog-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2136blog-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2136blog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2136blog.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I take my first step into the lake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/?attachment_id=3038\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3038\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2133blog-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2012.9.1 - First Step\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2133blog-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2133blog-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2133blog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2133blog.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The water was a bit chilly for me, and I didn&#8217;t have my wetsuit with me today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YoeZ9roxsYw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So I just hiked back to the car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/?attachment_id=3043\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2148blog-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2012.9.1 - Hiking\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2148blog-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2148blog-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2148blog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_2148blog.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some guy was trying to swim around Lake Tahoe but he didn&#8217;t complete it because of winds. That won&#8217;t stop me. Just like the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il hit 11 (ELEVEN) holes in one in 1 (ONE) round of golf and shattered any previous record, I will take to the lake and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathan.siucity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}