{"id":13,"date":"2023-03-27T23:39:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T23:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenpatera.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2023-04-03T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:27:19","slug":"ken-patera-weight-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"KEN PATERA: Weight of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COMING APRIL 7, 2023 &#8211; Ken Patera&#8217;s new autobiography! Read how Ken crushed competition and broke records everywhere. He hurled all Track &amp; Field shot putters to the side. He pushed to the top of the weightlifting world winning countless medals in the Nationals, Pan Am Games and the Olympics \u2013 and was the first American to ever clean &amp; jerk over 500 pounds. In pro wrestling, he main-evented for the AWA as one of Andre the Giant\u2019s biggest foils and held the WWF Intercontinental Title concurrently with the NWA Missouri Championship. All these accolades were the results of hard work, but it wasn\u2019t an easy road. With obstacles, injuries, and an intense pressure to succeed, witness the fitness of the \u201cWorld\u2019s Strongest Man\u201d and just how he handled bearing the \u201cWeight of the World.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"690\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"14\"  src=\"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ken-Patera-FRONT-cover-JPG-690x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ken-Patera-FRONT-cover-JPG-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ken-Patera-FRONT-cover-JPG-scaled-600x890.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ken-Patera-FRONT-cover-JPG-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ken-Patera-FRONT-cover-JPG-768x1139.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ken-Patera-FRONT-cover-JPG-1035x1536.jpg 1035w, https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ken-Patera-FRONT-cover-JPG-1381x2048.jpg 1381w, https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ken-Patera-FRONT-cover-JPG-scaled.jpg 1726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMING APRIL 7, 2023 &#8211; Ken Patera&#8217;s new autobiography! Read how Ken crushed competition and broke records everywhere. He hurled all Track &amp; Field shot putters to the side. He pushed to the top of the weightlifting world winning countless medals in the Nationals, Pan Am Games and the Olympics \u2013 and was the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpatera.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}