{"id":448,"date":"2010-06-25T19:48:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T02:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2010-06-25T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T02:48:44","slug":"my-brush-with-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"My brush with greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_4671sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-449\" title=\"Meb &amp; Me\" src=\"http:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_4671sm-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_4671sm-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_4671sm.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: left;\">\n<p>I returned from the Seattle Rock &#8216;n Roll expo yesterday to a voice mail from a PR contact for Sony who said she wanted to talk to me about my blog.  She had an opportunity she thought I might be interested in, yet didn&#8217;t elaborate.  We traded phone calls, and when I didn&#8217;t hear back I figured the opportunity had passed.  But as I got out of my dentist appointment this morning I saw a text from my husband &#8212; would I be interested in heading back to the expo to interview Meb?  HELL YEAH!<\/p>\n<p>I rushed home, jumped into the shower (and my 2010 Boston shirt, natch.  After all, the race is probably the ONLY thing Meb and I have in common).  I had to wait for almost an hour while he signed autographs (he signed both my Boston bib and the one I&#8217;ll wear tomorrow), before I got the chance to sit down one-on-one.  While I had hoped to put on my best hardcore journalism hat ala Bob Woodward, it was more of a gush-fest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I&#8217;msohonoredtomeetyou,youmadeussoproudinNewYork,Iwasthrilled toseeyoucrossthefinishline,you&#8217;resuchaninspiration.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post my &#8220;interview&#8221; with him later this weekend, but for now I&#8217;m reveling in the encouragement he provided for tomorrow: &#8220;Go for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_4741sm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-451\" title=\"Go for it\" src=\"http:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_4741sm1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_4741sm1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/IMG_4741sm1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I returned from the Seattle Rock &#8216;n Roll expo yesterday to a voice mail from a PR contact for Sony who said she wanted to talk to me about my blog. She had an opportunity she thought I might be interested in, yet didn&#8217;t elaborate. We traded phone calls, and when I didn&#8217;t hear back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[143,144,145],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-musings","tag-meb-keflezighi","tag-seattle-rock-n-roll","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}