{"id":285,"date":"2017-04-17T03:26:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T03:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/?p=285"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T09:47:11","slug":"staying-safe-at-the-2017-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/marathon-2017\/staying-safe-at-the-2017-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying Safe at the 2017 Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Learner Liu, Eric Getzoff, and Rob Carter<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>BU News Service<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon in 2013, security along the race track has increased dramatically. In order to stay safe and have a good time at this year&#8217;s marathon, we compiled advice for both spectators and runners.<\/p>\n<p>For spectators, Deputy Superintendent Kelly Nee of the Boston Police Department provided the warnings in the clickable slide show below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.thinglink.com\/channelcard\/910341748142637057\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though they won&#8217;t be in the crowd, runners might have some safety issues too.<\/p>\n<p>At Hynes Convention Center, Ian Kulin, who has been running in Boston Marathon for fifteen years, said he \u201cended up in hospital\u201d after his first marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Any runners hoping to avoid Kulin&#8217;s fate might want to heed the advice of these veteran runners and coaches:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.thinglink.com\/channelcard\/910341803356454913\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon in 2013, security along the race track has increased dramatically. In order to stay safe and have a good time at this year&#8217;s marathon, we compiled advice for both spectators and runners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[8],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interactives","category-marathon-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/marathon2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}