{"id":126709,"date":"2025-08-07T15:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126709\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:53:12","slug":"brendan-o-mearas-new-book-is-the-front-runner-the-life-of-steve-prefontaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126709\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan O\u2019 Meara’s new book is \u201cThe Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 50th Anniversary of the American Track and Field icon Steve Prefontaine\u2019s tragic death comes the new book \u201cThe Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine.\u201d A reappraisal of his life and legacy of powerful work of narrative history exploring the forces and the psychology that made him great and separating the man from the myths. <\/p>\n

On the anniversary of his untimely death author Brendan O\u2019 Meara, host of “The Creative Nonfiction Podcast,”<\/a> offers a definitive retelling of Prefontaine\u2019s life revisiting one of the most enigmatic figures in American sports with a 21st century lens. <\/p>\n

Brendan is the founder and host of \u201cThe Creative Nonfiction Podcast.\u201d As a sportswriter he has covered a swath of the events like the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont. He has also covered for several local and professional sports for \u201cTrail Runner Magazine,\u201d \u201cBleacher Report,\u201d and the \u201cAssociated Press.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the 50th Anniversary of the American Track and Field icon Steve Prefontaine\u2019s tragic death comes the new…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-126709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114988292825890029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}