{"id":3595,"date":"2026-04-09T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:05:00","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3595","title":{"rendered":"What If?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What if the baby boom generation\u2014who were recipients of JFK\u2019s fitness program in schools of the \u201850s and \u201860s\u2014could once again return walking to an everyday practice for ordinary Americans\u2014young and old?<\/p>\n

How could that happen? Well, I\u2019m pretty sure we won\u2019t do it by lecturing on the subject. Similarly, Kennedy\u2019s words in Sports Illustrated weren\u2019t enough to effect a change. What was? There are dozens of pictures of President Kennedy walking with ordinary people. He didn\u2019t just talk about it; he did it.<\/p>\n

And if we want to follow in his steps, we\u2019ll need to do the same. Just showing up for regular walks is an advertisement for others to follow. And, if you want to go a step further, take a grandchild along.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

I hope you noticed my video on Walking as a Child. I posted it last Monday. I intend to do this for 6 to 10 weeks, every Monday having a different video with a different theme. Hopefully these one-minute spots will be enjoyable in themselves, and they\u2019ll help me get the word out about the book. To date, the first has had over 200 views which means several of you are clicking the share arrow (under the video the arrow that reaches up and to the right). Thank you for that.<\/p>\n

One more thing\u2014you can still share the last one. Just find it on my page and click the arrow. Once clicked you can add a line: \u201cCheck out my friend Mike Bellah\u2019s new book.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What if the baby boom generation\u2014who were recipients of JFK\u2019s fitness program in schools of the \u201850s and \u201860s\u2014could once again return walking to an everyday practice for ordinary Americans\u2014young and old? How could that happen? Well, I\u2019m pretty sure we won\u2019t do it by lecturing on the subject. Similarly, Kennedy\u2019s words in Sports Illustrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}