{"id":3569,"date":"2014-08-30T13:38:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T11:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2014-09-10T07:24:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T05:24:35","slug":"run-kevin-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3569","title":{"rendered":"Run, Kevin, run!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/5687394126_fee7d3cece_m.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/5687394126_fee7d3cece_m.jpg\" alt=\"Snowdonia Marathon 2010\" width=\"240\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE &#8211; 10 September 2014:<\/strong> <em>Following a mass mailing to the English list and publicity on social media yesterday, we&#8217;ve raised $1,194 (\u00a3741) from 43 donors &#8212; a good beginning.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the first time ever, someone has suggested that they run a marathon on behalf of LabourStart &#8212; and what a marathon this is. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/kevin\">Kevin Curran<\/a>, former general secretary of the GMB, one of Britain&#8217;s largest unions, who is currently chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelworkers.org.uk\">central London hotel workers branch of Unite<\/a>, is the runner.<\/p>\n<p>And the race is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowdoniamarathon.co.uk\/\">Snowdonia Marathon<\/a>, held on 25 October, and is considered <strong>one of the most difficult races in the UK<\/strong> (it encircles the highest peak in England and Wales).<\/p>\n<p>Click here to make your donation and spread the word:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/kevin\">http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/go\/kevin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE &#8211; 10 September 2014: Following a mass mailing to the English list and publicity on social media yesterday, we&#8217;ve raised $1,194 (\u00a3741) from 43 donors &#8212; a good beginning. &nbsp; For the first time ever, someone has suggested that they run a marathon on behalf of LabourStart &#8212; and what a marathon this is. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}