{"id":506,"date":"2010-11-10T06:07:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T12:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2010-11-10T14:30:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T20:30:13","slug":"man-on-a-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Man on a Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hero of this past Sunday&#8217;s NYC Marathon = Edison Pena.<\/p>\n<p>What would you do with your time if you were trapped one half mile underground for 69 days with 32 other miners?  Excerpt from story;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pena&#8217;s personal victory came just weeks after he was still training in near-darkness, jogging 6 or 7 miles each day 2,300 feet underground in stifling heat and humidity.<\/p>\n<p>The miner cut his steel-tipped electrician&#8217;s boots down to ankle height so he could train each morning and afternoon along the rocky, muddy 1,000-yard corridor where the men were trapped. He built up strength by dragging a large wooden pallet that was attached to a cord tied to his waist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More testament to the human will and;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It&#8217;s NEVER what happens to you, it&#8217;s ALWAYS what you DO about it that matters<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            &#8211;W Mitchell<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what would you do?  What part of you would decide to train for a marathon you might never get to?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Link to full story:  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20101108\/ap_on_sp_ot\/ath_nyc_marathon_chilean_miner\/print\">Man on a Mission<\/a><ins datetime=\"2010-11-10T12:10:31+00:00\"><\/a href><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hero of this past Sunday&#8217;s NYC Marathon = Edison Pena. What would you do with your time if you were trapped one half mile underground for 69 days with 32 other miners? Excerpt from story; &#8220;Pena&#8217;s personal victory came &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,27,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,31],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}