{"id":27013,"date":"2012-08-08T23:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T23:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/08\/nerdyninjanicole-even-though-she-grew-up\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T13:37:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T13:37:43","slug":"nerdyninjanicole-even-though-she-grew-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/08\/nerdyninjanicole-even-though-she-grew-up\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-27013 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/08\/nerdyninjanicole-even-though-she-grew-up\/attachment\/27014\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m8g43t0HkY1qbpcgbo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m8g43t0HkY1qbpcgbo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m8g43t0HkY1qbpcgbo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/nerdyninjanicole.tumblr.com\/post\/28987710984\">nerdyninjanicole<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Even though she grew up playing football, shooting hoops and running races against all the boys in her neighborhood, U.S. 800-meter champion Alysia Montano never wanted to be thought of as one of them.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, she started wearing a flower behind her right ear to remind the boys they were getting beat by a girl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flower to me means strength with femininity. I\u00a0think that a lot of people say things like you run like a girl. That doesn\u2019t mean you have to run soft or you have to run dainty. It means that you\u2019re strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/olympics-fourth-place-medal\/why-alysia-montano-wears-flower-her-hair-during-061901527--oly.html\">Source<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nerdyninjanicole: Even though she grew up playing football, shooting hoops and running races against all the boys in her neighborhood, U.S. 800-meter champion Alysia Montano never wanted to be thought of as one of them. As a result, she started wearing a flower behind her right ear to remind the boys they were getting beat &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/08\/08\/nerdyninjanicole-even-though-she-grew-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27015,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27013\/revisions\/27015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}