{"id":7546,"date":"2012-12-10T01:13:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T05:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2021-03-21T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T17:02:11","slug":"hanging-with-olympic-medalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7546","title":{"rendered":"Hanging with Olympic Medalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z121012cz_olympians.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That&#8217;s me, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Ato Bolden<\/strong><\/span>,<\/span> <strong>Allyson Felix<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Joanna Hayes<\/strong><\/span> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatf.org\/Athlete-Bios\/Aries-Merritt.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Aries Merritt<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0 I&#8217;m in some pretty fast company, folks. \u00a0In case you didn&#8217;t know it, they&#8217;re all <strong>Olympic Track and Field Medalists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ato_Boldon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Ato Bolden<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: 4-time Olympic medalist [two bronze 1996; bronze &amp; silver in 2000]<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allyson_Felix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Allyson Felix<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>: 6-time Olympic medalist [silver 2004; bronze &amp; silver 2008; 4 gold in 2012]<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joanna_Hayes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Joanna Hayes<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>: Gold medal winner 2004<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aries_Merritt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Aries Merritt<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Gold medal winner 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These <strong>Olympians<\/strong> were in town for the <strong>USA Track and Field<\/strong> annual meeting and are all part of the<em><strong> &#8220;Win with Integrity&#8221;<\/strong> <\/em>program sponsored by<strong> USATF<\/strong>. \u00a0They came to our school and spoke with our 8th grade honor roll students. \u00a0Their message focused on students staying in school, getting a good education and living life with integrity. \u00a0Our students were able to ask them questions, hold a real gold medal and get photos and autographs.<\/p>\n<p>It was truly a pleasure to have these <strong>Olympic heroes<\/strong> on campus to speak to our students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s me, Ato Bolden, Allyson Felix, Joanna Hayes and Aries Merritt.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in some pretty fast company, folks. \u00a0In case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26589,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions\/26589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}