{"id":623,"date":"2011-12-13T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2011-12-13T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T20:22:00","slug":"twelve-days-of-track-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Days of Track Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-B5_bsSkR7CM\/Tue0ycCuQiI\/AAAAAAAAAnM\/xpWIoETQRts\/s1600-h\/image%25255B5%25255D.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-i0ZsrM6SgQ4\/Tue0yqI3fKI\/AAAAAAAAAnU\/hDRa2ReorW8\/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?resize=164%2C164\" width=\"164\" height=\"164\"><\/a><font size=\"3\">It\u2019s the holiday season, and exactly twelve days before Christmas. So in the spirit of the season, I thought I would retool the Twelve Days of Christmas to fit my favorite sport. This should be sung to the tune of the original. So a quick departure from the serious before closing out the year, my twelve days of track Christmas.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">\u201cOn the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me\u201d:<\/font> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\">A squad that doesn\u2019t drop the baton<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Two unexpected stars<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Three new tracks<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Four world level meets<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Five gold medals<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Six runners running<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Seven steeplers leaping<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Eight sprinters training<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Nine vaulters vaulting<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Ten jumpers jumping<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Eleven javelins flying<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\">Twelve throwers throwing<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the holiday season, and exactly twelve days before Christmas. So in the spirit of the season, I thought I would retool the Twelve Days of Christmas to fit my favorite sport. This should be sung to the tune of the original. So a quick departure from the serious before closing out the year, my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa3DCY-a3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trackchill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}