{"id":439,"date":"2025-10-21T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/?p=439"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:25:36","slug":"des-moines-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/2025\/10\/21\/des-moines-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Des Moines Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone!<\/p>\n<p>I just got back from Des Moines, where I was running a half marathon! I&#8217;ve been training for the past few months for this since it has been on my bucket list. That was my first time being in the city, and I loved it. My friend is from there, and I stayed with her over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Race day was chilly and windy, but I quickly warmed up once the race started. I had some injuries, but they did no hinder me during the race! I felt so good during most of it and I cannot believe I ran 13.1 miles! Now time to train for a marathon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/10\/578010218-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-440 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/10\/578010218-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/10\/578010218-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/10\/578010218-1-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/10\/578010218-1-768x1162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/10\/578010218-1-300x454.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/files\/2025\/10\/578010218-1.jpg 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is a photo of me running!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Best,<br \/>\nSolenn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone! I just got back from Des Moines, where I was running a half marathon! I&#8217;ve been training for the past few months for this since it has been on my bucket list. That was my first time being in the city, and I loved it. My friend is from there, and I stayed with her over the weekend. Race day was chilly and windy, but I quickly warmed up once the race started. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/solenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}