{"id":25503,"date":"2016-03-15T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/reigning-champ-leads-final-push-to-nome\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T15:00:25","slug":"reigning-champ-leads-final-push-to-nome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/reigning-champ-leads-final-push-to-nome\/","title":{"rendered":"Reigning champ leads final push to Nome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOME \u2014 Reigning Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Dallas Seavey leads the 2016 race as mushers move up the Bering Sea coast.<\/p>\n<p>Seavey reached the village of Elim at 4:09 a.m. Monday, stayed two minutes, and headed north with nine dogs in harness.<\/p>\n<p>He has a 26-minute lead over Brent Sass, who reached Elim just before 4:30 a.m., stayed eight minutes and left with 13 dogs at 4:37 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Seavey\u2019s father, former champion Mitch Seavey, was three minutes behind Sass. He left Elim at 4:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Aliy Zirkle, one of two mushers whose teams were hit by a snowmobile Saturday morning, is in fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Teams must take a mandatory eight-hour rest stop at the village of White Mountain but could reach the finish line at Nome by Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOME \u2014 Reigning Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Dallas Seavey leads the 2016 race as mushers move up the Bering Sea coast. Seavey reached the village of Elim at 4:09 a.m. Monday, stayed two minutes, and headed north with nine dogs in harness. He has a 26-minute lead over Brent Sass, who reached Elim [&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":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25503","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=25503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25503"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}