{"id":19364,"date":"2019-02-22T19:54:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19364"},"modified":"2019-02-22T19:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:54:37","slug":"an-athletes-enduring-spirit-in-the-face-of-hiv-nothings-going-to-stop-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/an-athletes-enduring-spirit-in-the-face-of-hiv-nothings-going-to-stop-me\/","title":{"rendered":"An athlete\u2019s enduring spirit in the face of HIV: &#8216;Nothing\u2019s going to stop me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/turntable.kagiso.io\/images\/Screenshot_2019-02-21_at_08.43.53.width-800.png\" alt=\"Evelina Tshabalala\" width=\"800\" height=\"355\" \/>Evelina Tshabalala \/ Beautiful News.<\/p>\n<p>Barefoot, Tshabalala ran her first professional 10-kilometre race \u2013 and won. That afternoon, she entered a five-kilometre race. She won that too. With the prize money, she could finally afford a pair of running shoes. Shortly after, Tshabalala began competing in long-distance races. She completed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Marathon,<\/a> placing 25th. With her insurmountable energy, Tshabalala then turned to the grueling challenge of mountain climbing and summited three of the world\u2019s highest peaks. The fact that she\u2019s HIV-positive has never held her back.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacarandafm.com\/shows\/workzone-elana-afrika-bredenkamp\/athletes-enduring-spirit-face-hiv-nothings-going-stop-me\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Evelina Tshabalala \/ Beautiful News. Barefoot, Tshabalala ran her first professional 10-kilometre race \u2013 and won. That afternoon, she entered a five-kilometre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}