{"id":351,"date":"2025-03-02T05:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2025-03-02T05:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T05:05:32","slug":"this-weeks-featured-runner-is-ryan-skender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/this-weeks-featured-runner-is-ryan-skender\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s featured runner is Ryan Skender!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-352\" src=\"http:\/\/runeureka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/St-Jude-1-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/St-Jude-1-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/runeureka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/St-Jude-1.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2025 will be Ryan\u2019s second year with the Eureka Run, and his wife Adrienne will be joining us this year as well!!\u00a0 They both previously ran with East Peoria in 2017.\u00a0 They run \u201c100% for the kids and knowing every dollar raised is going towards helping take care of costs related to treatment, travel, housing, food, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy favorite thing about the run is how communities from all over the state come together to help support the cause.\u00a0 It\u2019s also been a pleasure getting to know additional families in the Eureka community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy favorite part of run day is coming across the downtown bridge, seeing the thousands of people cheering, and giving all of the kids high fives as we finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a pleasure getting to know you last year, Ryan, and it was awesome to see how quickly and how well you fit in with our group. Thank you for choosing to be a part of our run family, and for bringing Adrienne in this year as well. We appreciate all your hard work raising money for the kids of St. Jude!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 will be Ryan\u2019s second year with the Eureka Run, and his wife Adrienne will be joining us this year as well!!\u00a0 They both previously ran with East Peoria in 2017.\u00a0 They run \u201c100% for the kids and knowing every dollar raised is going towards helping take care of costs related to treatment, travel, housing,Continue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-thumb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeureka.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}