{"id":31296,"date":"2016-03-09T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/petit-mackey-among-early-leaders\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:07:05","slug":"petit-mackey-among-early-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/petit-mackey-among-early-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Petit, Mackey among early leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2014 Nicolas Petit has taken the early lead in the 2016 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.<\/p>\n<p>Petit is the first musher in to Nikolai. He reached the village at 8:41 a.m. Tuesday, passing four-time champion and previous leader Lance Mackey.<\/p>\n<p>Mackey left the Rohn checkpoint just before 7 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning champ and three-time winner Dallas Seavey left Rohn an hour and 8 minutes after Mackey at 7:44 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Aliy Zirkle, Mitch Seavey and Paul Gebhardt followed Seavey.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday is the third day of the 1,000-mile race to Nome.<\/p>\n<p>The competitive portion of the race with 85 teams began Sunday in Willow.<\/p>\n<p>The winner is expected to reach the finish line about nine days after the start of the race.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>This story has been corrected to reflect what day Mackey left Rohn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Nicolas Petit has taken the early lead in the 2016 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Petit is the first musher in to Nikolai. He reached the village at 8:41 a.m. Tuesday, passing four-time champion and previous leader Lance Mackey. Mackey left the Rohn checkpoint just before 7 p.m. Monday. Reigning champ and three-time [&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-31296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31296","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=31296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31296"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}