{"id":751,"date":"2025-12-16T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/?p=751"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:38:47","slug":"special-compass-joins-the-fight-at-the-2026-dolphins-cancer-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/special-compass-joins-the-fight-at-the-2026-dolphins-cancer-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Compass Joins the Fight at the 2026 Dolphins Cancer Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 20 years ago, Jim Sayih and Anthony Shriver began a friendship inspired by the courage of Jim and his son Michael. The determination to be an example of inclusion and love brought Jim and Michael to countless 100-mile Best Buddies Challenges across the United States. The joy they have found participating together with Michael in tow has shown the Best Buddies community that anything is possible!<\/p>\n<p>Today, this continued spirit has inspired our new team celebrating Michael, the mission of Best Buddies, and the incredible strength of inclusion. We are riding as one team Special Compass &#8211; Best Buddies. Together we will tow our buddies 54 miles celebrating the gift of people with all abilities.<\/p>\n<p>For our first year riding together as a unified team, we would like to dedicate our Dolphins Challenge to Best Buddies\u2019 friend and leader Mark Wylie. We are fighting his cancer as a team filled with hope and love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dolphinscancerchallenge.com\/teams\/7709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Support the Special Compass team here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 20 years ago, Jim Sayih and Anthony Shriver began a friendship inspired by the courage of Jim and his son Michael. The determination to be an example of inclusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialcompass.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}