{"id":4857,"date":"2011-03-24T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2011-03-24T15:43:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:43:59","slug":"fireman-to-participate-in-%e2%80%98climb-to-the-top%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4857","title":{"rendered":"Fireman To Participate In \u2018Climb To The Top\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, March 26th, more than 900 people will converge on the Bank of America building in downtown Tampa. Each will strive to reach the top before the others.<\/p>\n<p>Each person will be required to climb the 42 floors composed of 914 steps.<\/p>\n<p>One of those taking part in the event is <strong>George Nelson<\/strong>, 35, a member of the City of Tampa Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first year <strong>Nelson<\/strong> will participate. When asked about his motivation, <strong>Nelson<\/strong> said, \u201cI\u2019m doing it for the challenge and because it\u2019s for a good cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nelson<\/strong> said he is ready and plans to reach the top within 15 minutes. But he said it doesn\u2019t matter how well he does this year, he will most likely compete again next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether trying to prevent lung disease in themselves or responding to those suffering from the consequences of lung illnesses these rescuers are sending a strong message to our community that we need to support lung health and the American Lung Association.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, March 26th, more than 900 people will converge on the Bank of America building in downtown Tampa. Each will strive to reach the top before the others. Each person will be required to climb the 42 floors composed of 914 steps. One of those taking part in the event is George Nelson, 35, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}