{"id":54426,"date":"2010-09-24T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123223646"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T20:02:00","slug":"10th-sws-airman-conquers-ironman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=54426","title":{"rendered":"10th SWS Airman conquers Ironman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123223646\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100912-O-9876Z-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>During the weekend of Sept. 12, while most stayed home and relaxed after a long week of hard work, one member of the 10th Space Warning Squadron drove to Wisconsin to participate in this year&#8217;s Ford Ironman competition.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Assad Samad, operations officer at the 10th Space Warning Squadron, competed against 3000 high endurance athletes from different areas of the world in an Ironman triathlon competition. The Ironman, a one day event consisting of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride, and a 26.2 mile run, challenges the physical and mental condition of its contenders. Major Samad completed the event in 14 hours and 27 minutes. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123223646\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}