{"id":44424,"date":"2019-03-10T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/french-iditarod-musher-first-to-reach-the-bering-sea-coast\/"},"modified":"2019-03-10T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T16:30:00","slug":"french-iditarod-musher-first-to-reach-the-bering-sea-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/french-iditarod-musher-first-to-reach-the-bering-sea-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"French Iditarod musher first to reach the Bering Sea coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE &mdash; Nicolas Petit is the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher to reach Alaska&rsquo;s Bering Sea coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman pulled into the checkpoint at Unalakleet (YUN&rsquo;-uh-lah-kleet) Sunday. He left the previous checkpoint with about a two-hour lead on defending champion Joar Ulsom of Norway and Alaskans Jessie Royer and Pete Kaiser.<\/p>\n<p>Petit wins $1,500 in gold nuggets for being first to the wind-whipped coast.<\/p>\n<p>After Unalakleet, mushers will work their way north up to the coast, eventually reaching the finish line in Nome after a thousand-mile (1,600-kilometer) trek across Alaska&rsquo;s wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Abbott became the fourth musher to leave the race, citing personal health reasons and worries about taking care of her team. The Nebraska native and former Cal State-Fullerton professor who has climbed Mount Everest scratched late Saturday.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>This is an Associated Press report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Frenchman pulled into the checkpoint at Unalakleet Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":44425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[128],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-44424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44424","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44424"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}