{"id":121,"date":"2015-11-19T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T11:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2019-11-21T06:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T06:52:03","slug":"come-run-with-us-january-1-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"2016 Micro Marathon: Come Run with Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark your calendar for <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">January 1, 2016\u00a0at 10:00\u00a0AM<\/span><\/strong><\/span> and\u00a0join us for the 2nd annual\u00a0(micro) MARATHON! &#8230;2.62 miles of running (or walking!),\u00a0for a great cause. Race is an out and back course starting at George Rogers Park in Lake Oswego.<\/p>\n<p>This will be an exciting activity for the whole family and 100% of the money will\u00a0be donated to the Oregon\u00a0Department of Human Services (DHS) for kids in Foster Care.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is through AthletePath (link not active until November 19, 2015).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athletepath.com\/micro-marathon-262-lake-oswego-fun-run\/2016-01-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-51 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/register-button.jpg\" alt=\"register button\" width=\"206\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">#micromarathon2016<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Go forth, and do good&#8221;<\/em>, <strong>DHS District Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Did you know:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>there are 8,700\u00a0kids in <a title=\"DHS Foster Care\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/dhs\/children\/fosteradopt\/pages\/foster\/faq.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oregon Foster care<\/a><\/li>\n<li>kids in Foster care can spend up to 1.5 hours (one way) in transportation<\/li>\n<li>these vehicles do not have any entertainment systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Our plan:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide money to equip the DHS vehicles with\u00a0ipads, or similar devices<\/li>\n<li>Provide movies, games &amp; entertainment<\/li>\n<li>Starting with the Clackamas County and Tri County, with plans for future counties as funds are available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Why:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<address>Kids are often\u00a0in the vehicles for up to 1.5 hours each way (not including unexpected traffic &amp; congestion)<\/address>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<address>Provides entertainment \/ distraction<\/address>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<address>Easier for drivers to concentrate<\/address>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<address>Fun &amp; learning!<\/address>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/runpath4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-67 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/runpath4.jpg\" alt=\"runpath4\" width=\"895\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/runpath4.jpg 895w, https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/runpath4-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark your calendar for January 1, 2016\u00a0at 10:00\u00a0AM and\u00a0join us for the 2nd annual\u00a0(micro) MARATHON! &#8230;2.62 miles of running (or walking!),\u00a0for a great cause. Race is an out and back course starting at George Rogers Park in Lake Oswego. This will be an exciting activity for the whole family and 100% of the money will\u00a0be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/?p=121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2016 Micro Marathon: Come Run with Us!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micromarathon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}