{"id":20190,"date":"2016-04-04T22:24:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T05:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/iditarod-musher-reports-groping-marking-3rd-issue-in-race\/"},"modified":"2016-04-04T22:24:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T05:24:43","slug":"iditarod-musher-reports-groping-marking-3rd-issue-in-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/iditarod-musher-reports-groping-marking-3rd-issue-in-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Iditarod musher reports groping, marking 3rd issue in race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2014 Alaska authorities are investigating a third unwelcome encounter during this year\u2019s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race after a female musher said two men groped her as her team passed by.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska State Trooper James Lester says he\u2019s investigating the March 13 incident as harassment for now. The 27-year-old musher reported the groping at the checkpoint in the village of Nulato, almost 350 miles from the Nome finish line.<\/p>\n<p>It happened a day after authorities say a man on a snowmobile intentionally drove into two top Iditarod teams, killing one dog and injuring others.<\/p>\n<p>Lester says he\u2019s been playing phone tag with the rookie musher and hasn\u2019t interviewed her yet. The woman couldn\u2019t immediately be reached for comment by The Associated Press on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Alaska authorities are investigating a third unwelcome encounter during this year\u2019s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race after a female musher said two men groped her as her team passed by. Alaska State Trooper James Lester says he\u2019s investigating the March 13 incident as harassment for now. The 27-year-old musher reported the groping at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}