{"id":11054,"date":"2019-11-14T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=11054"},"modified":"2019-11-14T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:39:19","slug":"nick-butter-from-verwood-completes-mission-to-run-a-marathon-in-196-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/nick-butter-from-verwood-completes-mission-to-run-a-marathon-in-196-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Butter from Verwood completes mission to run a marathon in 196 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Verwood&#8217;s Nick Butter has completed his mission to run a marathon in all 196 United Nations-recognised countries with the Athens Classic Marathon.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nick has been <a href=\"https:\/\/justgiving.com\/fundraising\/runningtheworld\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">raising money<\/a> and awareness for Prostate Cancer UK, as well as reducing stigma around prostate cancer after bening diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nick-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"816\" height=\"544\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11057\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old former banker was told he could have just two years to live so set himself the amazing challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Nick said he started running the marathons at the beginning of 2018 after meeting an extraordinary man in the Sahara Desert.<\/p>\n<p>Nick now lives in Bristol and plans to do talks to share his experiences.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Day 674 &#8211; Marathon 196 of 196! Greece ?? Athens <br \/>\u2014<br \/>I did it. I actually did it. Ha ???\u200d\u2642\ufe0f??Against all odds. I ran a marathon in every country in the world ? Ha, I can\u2019t believe it. A new world first and a new world\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ik2KP0Y1lO\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ik2KP0Y1lO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Butter (@nickbutterrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickbutterrun\/status\/1193783008160968704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"411\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11056\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Text &#8216;NRTW89 \u00a310&#8217; to 70070 Support Prostate Cancer UK. Photos from <a href=\"https:\/\/nickbutterrunning.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">nickbutterrunning.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verwood&#8217;s Nick Butter has completed his mission to run a marathon in all 196 United Nations-recognised countries with the Athens Classic Marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-11054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-nick-butter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}