{"id":51690,"date":"2014-08-28T00:09:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T07:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=51690"},"modified":"2014-08-28T00:09:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T07:09:39","slug":"sisyphus-reinvented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/51690","title":{"rendered":"Sisyphus reinvented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tYou&#8217;ve probably heard of Sisyphus, the mythical king who was punished for his evil behavior by having to endlessly roll a huge boulder up a steep hill.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51691\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51691\" class=\"wp-image-51691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/800px-Tiziano_-_S\u00edsifo.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Tiziano_-_S\u00edsifo\" width=\"360\" height=\"403\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-51691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Punishement of Sisyph by Titian via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apparently, so had Stuart Kettell, a 49-year-old videographer from the West Midlands, Wales. Stuart recently hiked up Wales\u2019 highest peak, 3,500-foot Mount Snowdon, pushing a \u00a0Brussels sprouts &#8230; with his nose! After four days on his aching knees and\u00a022 Brussels sprouts, Stuart successfully met his goal to raise money for cancer support. (Do you think the current ice bucket challenge has a fund-raising challenger?)<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XGFHdKe7-20?feature=player_detailpage\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Stuart has a hankering for bizarre fundraising: he&#8217;s run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hRbo_T5bkRo\">26 miles A DAY for A WEEK\u00a0in a hamster wheel<\/a>,\u00a0lived in a box for a week, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HFHH_3coSCo\">walked 500 miles on stilts<\/a>. His next challenge? Walking across the English Channel along the seabed.\u00a0\u201cPeople definitely think I\u2019m mad,&#8221; he told the BBC, &#8220;and I\u2019m beginning to think it myself.\u201d\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of Sisyphus, the mythical king who was punished for his evil behavior by having to endlessly roll a huge boulder up a steep hill. Apparently, so had Stuart Kettell, a 49-year-old videographer from the West Midlands, Wales. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/51690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/51690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giving_back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}