{"id":1295,"date":"2016-09-22T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:27","slug":"meet-teamcardiff-ben-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2016\/09\/22\/meet-teamcardiff-ben-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet #TeamCardiff &#8211; Ben Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/ben-parker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1271 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/ben-parker.jpg\" alt=\"ben parker\" width=\"242\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/ben-parker.jpg 242w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/ben-parker-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/ben-parker-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/ben-parker-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2016\/09\/ben-parker-170x170.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>Ben Parker (Criminology 2014-)\u00a0has taken on the challenge of running the Cardiff University\/Cardiff Half Marathon\u00a0 after being influenced by a group of friends.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"image\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve chosen\u00a0to run for\u00a0cancer research at Cardiff University because the work they do is invaluable and pioneering. Cancer is something close to my heart with relatives having sadly passed away and people close to me suffering this year. I want to do all I can to support them in their fight against cancer. \u00a0It\u2019s the least I can do and nothing compared to what cancer patients and their family are going through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image\">&#8220;Training has been challenging and enlightening as it\u2019s a new experience for me. I did the 5k park run last weekend and my time was 25 minutes 59 seconds, which I was really happy with. It has been a blessing living so near Roath\u00a0Park Lake\u00a0as well as\u00a0\u00a0some of the actual half marathon route &#8211; it has helped massively with training. I\u2019ve found great inspiration from the Paralympics and other runners&#8217; JustGiving pages. I\u2019m apprehensive about Race Day but also excited as it\u2019s a new challenge and I can\u2019t wait for 10 am when it starts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0You can show your support and sponsor Ben on his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/fundraising\/Ben-Parker13\">JustGiving page <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Parker (Criminology 2014-)\u00a0has taken on the challenge of running the Cardiff University\/Cardiff Half Marathon\u00a0 after being influenced by a group of friends. \"I've chosen\u00a0to run for\u00a0cancer research at Cardiff [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1080,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,4],"tags":[104,101,105],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donate","category-news","tag-teamcardiff","tag-cardiff-half","tag-fundraising","post_format-post-format-aside"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}