{"id":840,"date":"2011-07-05T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/07\/kickass-swimmer-diana-nyad.html"},"modified":"2011-07-05T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T20:55:00","slug":"kickass-swimmer-diana-nyad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/07\/kickass-swimmer-diana-nyad.html","title":{"rendered":"Kickass swimmer Diana Nyad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOT often do I venture far from my music-film-authors obsession to write about <i>sports<\/i>, but I could not resist the chance to speak to <a href=\"http:\/\/diananyad.com\/blog\/\">Diana Nyad<\/a>, the record-breaking swimmer and NPR commentator who has decided, in her 60s, to swim more than 100 miles between Cuba and Florida.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke about regrets, physical endurance, killer\u00a0sharks, nasty jellyfish and the importance of Neil Young for the site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondact.com\/\">SecondAct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to be a thoroughbred racehorse,&#8221; she told me, explaining that her style was more graceful when she was young. &#8220;I&#8217;d get colds all the time &#8212; but I was <i>fast<\/i>. Now I&#8217;m more like a Clydesdale. I&#8217;m <i>much<\/i> stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondact.com\/2011\/07\/is-this-diana-nyads-summer\/\">Here<\/a>\u00a0is my full piece.<\/p>\n<p>Nyad takes off on her journey &#8212; twice postponed now &#8212; as soon as the weather cooperates. The Misread City wishes her luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOT often do I venture far from my music-film-authors obsession to write about sports, but I could not resist the chance to speak to Diana Nyad, the record-breaking swimmer and NPR commentator who has decided, in her 60s, to swim more than 100 miles between Cuba and Florida. We spoke about regrets, physical endurance, killer\u00a0sharks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,168,170],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-los-angeles","7":"category-neil-young","8":"category-sports","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}