{"id":172295,"date":"2025-08-30T08:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=172295"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:16:32","slug":"athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=172295","title":{"rendered":"Athlete Arrested Mid-Race at Ironman Lake Placid for Leaving 9-year-old Son Alone for Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a highly unusual and troubling incident at last week\u2019s Ironman Lake Placid, 44-year-old American athlete Harley F. Tong was arrested mid-race after allegedly leaving his 9-year-old son alone for nearly ten hours in the VIP spectator area. According to race officials, staff noticed a young child sitting alone in the VIP zone for an<br \/>\nThe post Athlete Arrested Mid-Race at Ironman Lake Placid for Leaving 9-year-old Son Alone for Hours appeared first on Triathlon Today&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tri-today.com\/2025\/07\/athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a highly unusual and troubling incident at last week\u2019s Ironman Lake Placid, 44-year-old American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172295-athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours.png",1024,489,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172295-athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172295-athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours-300x143.png",300,143,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172295-athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours-768x367.png",640,306,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172295-athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours.png",640,306,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172295-athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours.png",1024,489,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172295-athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours.png",1024,489,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172295-athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours.png",1024,489,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172295-athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours-825x489.png",825,489,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/172295-athlete-arrested-mid-race-at-ironman-lake-placid-for-leaving-9-year-old-son-alone-for-hours-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}