{"id":92779,"date":"2016-11-07T18:18:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T09:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=92779&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-11-07T18:18:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T09:18:55","slug":"asian-competitors-encouraged-join-marathon-new-asia-area","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/asian-competitors-encouraged-join-marathon-new-asia-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Competitors Encouraged to Join in Marathon with New &#8220;Asia Area&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To encourage Asian participants to compete in the Fukuoka Marathon, the marathon organizers have created a special \u2018Asia Area\u2019 zone. The new scheme is targeted towards those who live in Asian cities directly connected to Fukuoka by plane such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan. So far the scheme has been a success, with some 200 participants from 19 countries already signed up to run the marathon on Nov. 13 (Sun.). <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marathon-1024x682.png?resize=1024%2C682\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-92780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marathon.png?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marathon.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marathon.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marathon.png?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To encourage Asian participants to compete in the Fukuoka Marathon, the marathon organizers have created a special&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-92779","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/92779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}