{"id":207,"date":"2010-02-07T12:56:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T12:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2017-01-12T04:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:40:30","slug":"great-manchester-ru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/great-manchester-ru\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>On Target For Goal Number One &#8211; Almost<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I got the <strong>Good News <\/strong>that I&#8217;ve been selected in the ballot to run in the Great Manchester Run in May. 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