{"id":1893,"date":"2019-11-19T18:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2019-11-19T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:43:34","slug":"house-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2019\/11\/19\/house-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"House mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1894\" src=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG951696-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG951696-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG951696-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG951696.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had to tap out on a backpack this beautiful weekend. It was an end to a 10 week run. Just like the old days. In the late 90s, Ed Lee and I did a consecutive 34 weekends in the Smokies\/Slickrock. I doubt I will ever be able to match that performance but my consolation was ejoying a wonderful 5 mile jaunt with Howard to House mountain.<\/p>\n<p>It was the perfect afternoon, on a perfect day in a perfect weekend. Our training has been tailored to tackle Aconcagua in Argentina over Christmas. At 22,800 feet see this stone sentinel is no slouch.<\/p>\n<p>That ascent will require a lot of load hauling and high altitude acclimatization. It also requires a lot of money. I just paid more for an airline ticket than I&#8217;ve ever forked out in my life. It&#8217;s Christmas and everybody wants to head home to Latin America, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>We have our usual plan for Thanksgiving if anyone is interested and would like to join us. I wish everybody a wonderful weekend and happy holiday.<\/p>\n<p>John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to tap out on a backpack this beautiful weekend. It was an end to a 10 week run. Just like the old days. In the late 90s, Ed Lee and I did a consecutive 34 weekends in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/2019\/11\/19\/house-mountain\/\">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\/1893"}],"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=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/southernhighlanders.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}