{"id":491,"date":"2014-04-13T08:27:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T08:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/?p=491"},"modified":"2014-08-10T08:35:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T08:35:02","slug":"steve-jones-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/chat\/steve-jones-record","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jones Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/files\/2014\/04\/jones-spedding.700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/files\/2014\/04\/jones-spedding.700.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Jones - Charlie Spedding\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jones-spedding.700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jones-spedding.700-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jones-spedding.700-332x190.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1984, a certain Steve Jones of Wales, made his debut in Chicago, in one of the most competitive fields assembled after the LA Olympics. Jones went on to set a world record of 2:08:05.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The following year he returned to win again in 2:07:13 (missing Carlos Lopes WR of 2:07:12 set in Rotterdam earlier in the year) No one would have known at the time that Jones&#8217; time would still be the UK Record some 29 years later.<\/p>\n<p>In a few moments time, Mo Farah will be looking to break the UK record<\/p>\n<p><em>What must be remembered, as can be seen by the photo image of Jones at the London Marathon in 1985, with Charlie Spedding alongside him, was that Jones worked a full time job in the Royal Air Force<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984, a certain Steve Jones of Wales, made his debut in Chicago, in one of the most competitive fields assembled after the LA Olympics. Jones went on to set a world record of 2:08:05.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,85],"tags":[87,97,81,86],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chat","category-marathon","tag-87","tag-marathon","tag-mo-farah","tag-steve-jone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}