{"id":7603,"date":"2018-03-04T20:45:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2018-03-04T20:45:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:45:56","slug":"saudi-arabia-holds-first-ever-marathon-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/saudi-arabia-holds-first-ever-marathon-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia holds first-ever marathon for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7604\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Marathon.jpg\" alt=\"Marathon\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>Women in Saudi Arabia participated in a marathon on Saturday for the first time in the kingdom\u2019s history.<br \/>\nThe 3-kilometer marathon took place in the eastern province of al-Ahsa.<br \/>\n\u201cAl-Ahsa Runs\u201d was the title used for the marathon, which was participated by 1,500 women in different categories such as professional, amateur, old and young.<br \/>\nThe Saudi General Directorate of Sports, al-Moosa Hospital and al-Ahsa municipality sponsored the marathon.<br \/>\nMizna al-Nassar of Saudi Arabia won the first place medal at marathon, leaving behind her rivals from different nationalities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/saudi-arabia-holds-first-ever-marathon-for-women\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women in Saudi Arabia participated in a marathon on Saturday for the first time in the kingdom\u2019s history. The 3-kilometer marathon took place in the eastern province of al-Ahsa. \u201cAl-Ahsa Runs\u201d was the title used for the marathon, which was participated by 1,500 women in different categories such as professional, amateur, old and young. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7605,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions\/7605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}