{"id":24588,"date":"2018-01-19T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T13:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/19\/running-away-cretes-winding-paths\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T13:28:38","slug":"running-away-cretes-winding-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=24588","title":{"rendered":"Running away: Crete&#039;s winding paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek island is fantastic for running, offering decent roads, winding paths and plenty of opportunities for hill reps In Natural Born Heroes, Chris McDougall\u2019s follow-up to his bestselling Born to Run, he tells the story of Churchill\u2019s \u201cdirty tricksters\u201d. This makeshift squad \u2013 comprising such unlikely heroes as English archaeologists, artists and poets alongside local resistance fighters \u2013 helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete by kidnapping a German general and bustling him on foot across the tiny, uneven tracks that network the island. Modern trail runners can retrace these historic steps \u2013 there is even an ultra race that traces all 156.2km of it. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/the-running-blog\/2018\/jan\/19\/running-away-crete-winding-paths-greek\" target=\"_blank\">Running away: Crete&#039;s winding paths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek island is fantastic for running, offering decent roads, winding paths and plenty of opportunities for hill reps In Natural Born Heroes, Chris McDougall\u2019s follow-up to his bestselling Born to Run, he tells the story of Churchill\u2019s \u201cdirty tricksters\u201d. This makeshift squad \u2013 comprising such unlikely heroes as English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}