{"id":6053,"date":"2013-03-19T15:18:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T21:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=6053"},"modified":"2013-03-19T15:18:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T21:18:04","slug":"tel-aviv-marathon-cancelled-due-to-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/tel-aviv-marathon-cancelled-due-to-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tel Aviv Marathon cancelled due to heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; The full Tel Aviv Marathon, which was postponed a week due to oppressive heat, was canceled.<\/p>\n<p>The Tel Aviv municipality nixed the marathon on Monday, four days before the 26-mile race, after Israel&#8217;s Health Ministry said the forecast for hot and drier than normal weather would endanger the runners. The race had been rescheduled for Yarkon Park.<\/p>\n<p>On March 15, one man died and some 80 people were hospitalized with heat stroke after running the half-marathon of 13 miles. The start time of the race had been pushed forward in order to avoid the day&#8217;s heat.<\/p>\n<p>Tel Aviv residents and political opponents have called for the resignation of Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai in the wake of the death of Michael Michaelovich, 29, in the half-marathon.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Ministry has set up a committee to set official guidelines for weather conditions and public events.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Tel%20Aviv%20Marathon%20cancelled%20due%20to%20heat\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1491],"tags":[8781,8790,8795,2322,8788,2274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6054,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}