{"id":526,"date":"2017-04-27T04:47:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T04:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2017-04-27T04:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T04:47:17","slug":"national-beatings-weeks-5-6-410-42317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/national-beatings-weeks-5-6-410-42317\/","title":{"rendered":"National Beatings &#8211; Weeks 5 &#038; 6 (4\/10 &#8211; 4\/23\/17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/nc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-487\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Still not me, but getting closer to qualifying opportunities so I can be there&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Like weeks 3 &#038; 4, there were struggles with getting workouts in.  While I&#8217;m not hitting every one, I still believe I&#8217;m on track to qualify.  I hope to get two bites at the apple in May, but need a guide for the 1st one at this point.<\/p>\n<p>While there were struggles, there were several very bright spots.  These included:<\/p>\n<p>1)  A local facility helping to make sure we&#8217;re comfortable in the pool (next post).<\/p>\n<p>2)  Another organization putting their support behind me (2nd post).<\/p>\n<p>3)  Finding a solid alternative to having to go to St. Charles every time.  I will still do that for major issues, but it&#8217;s really nice to have them close.<\/p>\n<p>The story of the last month has been &#8216;it&#8217;s not how many times you get knocked down, it&#8217;s that you get up one more time&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Still not me, but getting closer to qualifying opportunities so I can be there&#8230;] Like weeks 3 &#038; 4, there were struggles with getting workouts in. While I&#8217;m not hitting every one, I still believe I&#8217;m on track to qualify. I hope to get two bites at the apple in May, but need a guide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/27\/national-beatings-weeks-5-6-410-42317\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Beatings &#8211; Weeks 5 &#038; 6 (4\/10 &#8211; 4\/23\/17)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,276],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-james-gilliard","tag-nationals-beatings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}