{"id":300833,"date":"2023-05-26T20:38:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T20:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=300833"},"modified":"2023-05-26T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:00:11","slug":"til-that-madison-square-garden-once-held-a-six-day-long-roller-skating-race-in-1885-that-ended-up-killing-two-of-the-contestants-the-highest-placing-racers-used-ammonia-soaked-rags-to-keep-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=300833","title":{"rendered":"TIL that Madison Square Garden once held a six-day long roller skating race in 1885 that ended up killing two of the contestants. The highest-placing racers used ammonia soaked rags to keep themselves from passing out and ended up skating for over 1000 miles each by the end of the competition."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/13snuvt\/til_that_madison_square_garden_once_held_a_sixday\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/JmZeL8zvBz1M-aDBVB5UqONoOGtT-Xw6Rq8k3yvS_mQ.jpg?width=320&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=bee2153ad94376f03828385d12f4977ccaa63767\" alt=\"TIL that Madison Square Garden once held a six-day long roller skating race in 1885 that ended up killing two of the contestants. The highest-placing racers used ammonia soaked rags to keep themselves from passing out and ended up skating for over 1000 miles each by the end of the competition.\" title=\"TIL that Madison Square Garden once held a six-day long roller skating race in 1885 that ended up killing two of the contestants. The highest-placing racers used ammonia soaked rags to keep themselves from passing out and ended up skating for over 1000 miles each by the end of the competition.\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/eyelashellhole\"> \/u\/eyelashellhole <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U9Wg0_hA_no&amp;ab_channel=DimeStoreAdventures\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/13snuvt\/til_that_madison_square_garden_once_held_a_sixday\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&#032; submitted by &#032; \/u\/eyelashellhole [link] &#032; [comments]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300836,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300833\/revisions\/300836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}