{"id":1419,"date":"2009-05-21T22:03:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2009-05-21T22:03:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T04:03:08","slug":"climb-every-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"Climb Every Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/05\/worth-dying-for.html#more\">post<\/a> at the Atlantic gets into the heads of the mountain climber who scale Everest at great personal risk.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since reading <i>Into Thin Air<\/i>, I&#8217;ve had a fascination with the idea of scaling everest.  I would never do it &#8212; I&#8217;m 37 and out of shape &#8212; and I just <i>know<\/i> I would take a wrong turn or something and spend the last few moments of my life running out of air and miserably wishing I could unmake the decision to climb while kicking myself for doing something so dumb.<\/p>\n<p>But it still fascinates me.  The extremes of human endeavor always do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great post at the Atlantic gets into the heads of the mountain climber who scale Everest at great personal risk. Ever since reading Into Thin Air, I&#8217;ve had a fascination with the idea of scaling everest. I would never do it &#8212; I&#8217;m 37 and out of shape &#8212; and I just know I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Climb Every Mountain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-mT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}