{"id":36235,"date":"2019-05-31T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36235"},"modified":"2019-05-31T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:16:12","slug":"there-are-some-amazing-people-in-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36235","title":{"rendered":"There Are Some Amazing People In Our Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/video\/FEA40v3\/meet-the-101-year-old-marathon-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBN News<\/a> featured an article today about Orville Rogers. Orville Rogers runs marathons. That is not particularly unusual until you consider the fact that Orville Rogers is 101 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The video below tells his story:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/By3cwTe5zyc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>At 101 years young, Orville Rogers still has a spring in his step and shows no signs of slowing down. the former airline pilot still remembers the day he fell in love with flying. \u201cI was a young boy about ten years old, and (Charles) Lindbergh circled my school house, in 1927, after his transatlantic solo flight,\u201d Orville recalls. \u201cThat cemented my desire to be a pilot.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article explains why he became a long-distance runner:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>He also became a long-distance runner after reading several studies on longevity and exercise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cDr. I Min Lee, from Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, complied a study and her conclusion was that people who exercise very vigorously for long periods of time, could expect to get back in added lifespan, nine hours of added life for every one hour of physical exercise. That is phenomenal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Orville not only ran a number of marathons; he holds two world records in the 90-100 age category. \u201cI entered two races in Boston, Massachusetts March 23rd, 2008: the 800 meter and the one-mile run,\u201d Orville says. \u201cAnd three weeks before the race in March 2008, my wife died. I talked to my children about it and we agreed she&#8217;d want me to continue to compete, so I did. And I won the 800 meters, set a new world record. The mile record, I really slaughtered. I ran it in 9:57.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Two years ago, Orville wrote his life story in his book, The Running Man. \u201cIt tells of my experiences in life, my flying, my running, my giving, and my family life and I hope it&#8217;s of a benefit and a help to people who may be questioning how they need to serve the Lord better.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link above to read the entire story. Orville Rogers is an amazing man who has led an amazing life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBN News featured an article today about Orville Rogers. Orville Rogers runs marathons. That is not particularly unusual until you consider the fact that Orville Rogers is 101 years old. The video below tells his story: The article reports: At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=36235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5398,6194,5807,5419,142,12155,8412],"class_list":["post-36235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston-marathon","tag-cbn-news","tag-charles-lindbergh","tag-marathon","tag-massachusetts","tag-orville-rogers","tag-physical-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36236,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36235\/revisions\/36236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}