{"id":5893,"date":"2016-03-22T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/last-place-musher-arrives-in-nome-ending-the-iditarod\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T15:02:09","slug":"last-place-musher-arrives-in-nome-ending-the-iditarod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/last-place-musher-arrives-in-nome-ending-the-iditarod\/","title":{"rendered":"Last place musher arrives in Nome, ending the Iditarod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has officially ended.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Helwig, a 32-year-old rookie from Willow, Alaska, was the last musher to reach Nome.<\/p>\n<p>She arrived in the Bering Sea coastal community at 11:51 p.m. Saturday with 11 dogs in harness and the red lantern, carried by the last place musher.<\/p>\n<p>The musher\u2019s annual banquet will be held in Nome on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Helwig finished the nearly 1,000 mile (1,600 kilometer) race across Alaska in 13 days, 8 hours, 51 minutes and 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Seavey won his fourth Iditarod on Tuesday in record time: 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes and16 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-five mushers began the race March 6 just north of Anchorage; 14 scratched from this year\u2019s Iditarod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has officially ended. Mary Helwig, a 32-year-old rookie from Willow, Alaska, was the last musher to reach Nome. She arrived in the Bering Sea coastal community at 11:51 p.m. Saturday with 11 dogs in harness and the red lantern, carried by the last place musher. The musher\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/last-place-musher-arrives-in-nome-ending-the-iditarod\/\" class=\"wp-embed-more\" target=\"_top\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last place musher arrives in Nome, ending the Iditarod<\/span><\/a><\/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-5893","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\/5893","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=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}