{"id":11462,"date":"2009-11-05T16:58:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T00:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11462"},"modified":"2009-11-05T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T01:00:09","slug":"sal-raises-80000-for-stoked-mentoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11462","title":{"rendered":"Sal Raises $80,000 For Stoked Mentoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1257455579_sal-290.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1257455579_sal-290.jpg','popup','width=290,height=433,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1257455579_sal-290-tm.jpg\" height=\"298\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1257455579 Sal-290\" \/><\/a>Our favorite <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">E Television<\/a><\/strong> announcer <strong>Sal Masekela<\/strong> may not have kicked <strong>Diddy&#8217;s<\/strong> hiney (or bettered <strong>Oprah&#8217;s<\/strong> 1994 time of 4:29:20), but he did finish all 26.2 miles of the New York City Marathon and in so doing ended up raising $80,000 for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoked.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked Mentoring<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/healthylifestyle\/news\/es-sal-masekela-raises-80000-for-charity-after-nyc-marathon-run-2009511\" target=\"_blank\">UsMagazine.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One hundred percent of the money I raised will go to Stoked.org,&#8221; Masekela told Usmagazine.com before the race. After crossing the finish line, Masekela Tweeted: &#8220;Well Tweeps, I let you down. Didn&#8217;t beat <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/iamdiddy\" target=\"_blank\">@iamdiddy<\/a><\/strong>. Hit a wall from hell at 18. Finished around 5 hrs. Hardest thing I&#8217;ve ever done.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To beat Diddy he needed to be under 4:15. But no matter. He finished and Stoked Mentoring wins big.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/healthylifestyle\/news\/es-sal-masekela-raises-80000-for-charity-after-nyc-marathon-run-2009511\" target=\"_blank\">Us Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our favorite E Television announcer Sal Masekela may not have kicked Diddy&#8217;s hiney (or bettered Oprah&#8217;s 1994 time of 4:29:20), but he did finish all 26.2 miles of the New York City Marathon and in so doing ended up raising $80,000 for Stoked Mentoring, according to a story on UsMagazine.com. &#8220;One hundred percent of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11463,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions\/11463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}