{"id":178982,"date":"2026-04-29T05:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178982\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:39:12","slug":"run-spud-run-erie-man-takes-on-pittsburgh-potato-marathon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178982\/","title":{"rendered":"Run Spud Run! Erie Man Takes on Pittsburgh Potato Marathon | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Joshua Williams - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six runners selected by Potatoes USA will be running in the Pittsburgh Marathon and Half Marathon on May 3. One Erie man, Joshua Williams has been selected to race as Speedy Spud in a custom potato costume.<\/p>\n<p>This is the largest potato costume running event in American History. Those selected are passionate about athletic performance, nutrition, and of course\u2026potatoes!<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Speedy Spud - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-six runners selected by Potatoes USA will be running in the Pittsburgh Marathon and Half Marathon on May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,79941,9155,79944,79940,79943,79942],"class_list":["post-178982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-joshua-williams","tag-pittsburgh-marathon","tag-potato","tag-potato-costume","tag-potatoes-usa","tag-speedy-spud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}