{"id":27998,"date":"2018-04-20T07:45:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=27998"},"modified":"2018-04-20T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T05:47:17","slug":"filipino-runner-conquers-north-pole-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/filipino-runner-conquers-north-pole-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino runner conquers North Pole Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Luisito &#8220;Louie&#8221; Sangalang proved that no adversity can break the Filipino spirit. As someone who survived cancer as a young adult,\u00a0Sangalang\u00a0represented FWD Life Philippines and succeeded in conquering the gruelling 42-kilometer FWD North Pole Marathon held on April 16, 2018. Running amid a ruggedly icy terrain and freezing temperature of minus 32 degrees, Sangalang finished the race in 11 hours and four minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27999\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/04\/fwd-louie-sangalang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The FWD North Pole Marathon is an initiative of the new Pan-Asian insurance company with operations in eight (8) Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Louie Sangalang is a multi-sport athlete, cancer survivor, and a healthy lifestyle and nutrition advocate. He joined ten (10) other FWD-sponsored runners from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Japan, who are collectively dubbed #FWDTeamAsia.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This is a press release from FWD Philippines. Minor edits were made prior to publishing.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louie Sangalang conquers one of the most gruelling marathon in the world! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[5684,5891,5687,5892],"class_list":["post-27998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-fwd","tag-fwd-philippines","tag-louie-sangalang","tag-north-pole-marathon"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/04\/fwd-louie-sangalang-e1524203147873.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28001,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998\/revisions\/28001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}