{"id":1431,"date":"2018-11-22T01:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T01:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2018-11-22T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T01:24:31","slug":"the-rotary-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2018\/11\/22\/the-rotary-version\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rotary Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By this time, if you haven&#8217;t caught one of my presentations about Everest, you probably haven&#8217;t tried or live out of town as do many friends. I&#8217;ve been privileged to share the story with two Rotary Clubs, two Kiwanis Clubs, Walters State College, Second Presbyterian Church, Sam Houston Elementary and Little River Trading Company&#8217;s Trails and Ales series through Outdoor Knoxville.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Rotary Version&#8221; is abbreviated given time constraints but I am sharing it publicly here thanks to Alan Smelser and the Bearden Rotary who were kind enough to film it. The &#8220;Rotary Versions&#8221; focus primarily on the Everest portion where the longer talks include a lead up and history of my experiences prior to Mt. Everest.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in having me share this experience with your group, I will gladly consider it, however, the middle of the day talks are quite difficult as I do work in Maryville and have to take time off.\u00a0 I have found that many people have questions and I enjoy trying to answer them all.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly have an abundance for which to be thankful this year. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and especially my family, girlfriend Laurel and all good friends who have supported the endeavor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58KtNG5zIdc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By this time, if you haven&#8217;t caught one of my presentations about Everest, you probably haven&#8217;t tried or live out of town as do many friends. I&#8217;ve been privileged to share the story with two Rotary Clubs, two Kiwanis Clubs, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2018\/11\/22\/the-rotary-version\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}