{"id":336,"date":"2012-02-02T18:21:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T23:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/02\/first-program-featured-in-running-times\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:38:09","slug":"first-program-featured-in-running-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/first-program-featured-in-running-times\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST program featured in Running Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1693\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/running-times.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1693\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1693 lazyload\" title=\"running-times\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/running-times.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"252\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 193px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 193\/252;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Toor and Bill Pierce discuss running strategy (photo by Paul Foster)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training (FIRST) was a topic of conversation in the January 2012 issue of the national magazine, <em>Running Times<\/em>.\u00a0 Rachel Toor wrote about attending a FIRST training retreat in an effort to improve her running times, and Furman professor Bill Pierce, director of FIRST, wrote about the challenges of coaching a creative writing teacher who wasn\u2019t convinced that the program could deliver what it promised.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runningtimes.com\/Article.aspx?ArticleID=24916&amp;PageNum=1\">Read Rachel Toor article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runningtimes.com\/Article.aspx?ArticleID=24922\">Read Bill Pierce article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training (FIRST) was a topic of conversation in the January 2012 issue of the national magazine,\u00a0<em>Running Times<\/em>.\u00a0 Rachel Toor wrote about attending a FIRST training retreat in an effort to improve her running times, and Furman professor Bill Pierce, director of FIRST, wrote about the challenges of coaching a creative writing teacher who wasn\u2019t convinced that the program could deliver what it promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}