{"id":953,"date":"2009-10-12T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=391"},"modified":"2009-10-12T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T15:06:01","slug":"off-the-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"off the couch&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Liz: \u00a0 As we travel, we take time to exercise with the kids in the afternoons. \u00a0 And recently we stopped at Goshen College&#8217;s track in Goshen, Indiana. \u00a0 While there, I encountered a woman jogging with her two young daughters. \u00a0 They were running a mile. \u00a0 The woman explained her daughters would be competing in the Fitness Health Festival in Fort Wayne. \u00a0 Throughout the summer they have kept a log of their miles. \u00a0 They are running the equivalent of a marathon, 26 miles and will receive a &#8220;gold medal&#8221; when they complete it&#8230; In an age when it&#8217;s sooo easy for children to be television and video game couch potatoes, this kind of thing is such an innovative way to get kids exercising. \u00a0 And I believe a &#8220;gold medal&#8221; should got to mom Jean Mounsithirag for sowing the seeds of family fitness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Liz: \u00a0 As we travel, we take time to exercise with the kids in the afternoons. \u00a0 And recently we stopped at Goshen College&#8217;s track in Goshen, Indiana. \u00a0 While there, I encountered a woman jogging with her two <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=953\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}