{"id":620,"date":"2008-09-22T09:24:55","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T16:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/?p=620"},"modified":"2008-09-22T09:24:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T16:24:55","slug":"kings-mountain-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/kings-mountain-again\/","title":{"rendered":"King&#8217;s Mountain, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding: 0px; margin-right: 5px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/bzo\/2879485228\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3078\/2879485228_a85525969c_m.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"\"   border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been up King&#8217;s Mountain <a href=\"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2006\/10\/18\/kings-mountain-hike\/\">before<\/a>. This time though, I went with an old friend, Del, and Truman (and Frodo). We took it slow, but it was super fun, and Tru did great!<\/p>\n<p>Truman wanted to carry my Camelbak for a while, so he carried it from just below the summit ridge up to the summit. Then he kept it on all the way down to the car. I think the weight made it a little tough for him on some of the descents, since he kept sliding, slipping and falling. But he had a really great attitude the whole time. It would&#8217;ve been easy to get grumpy, since we walked for a total of 4.5 hours, and experienced lots of weather from warm forest to chilly rain and fog at the summit. But he was a champ the whole time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been up King&#8217;s Mountain before. This time though, I went with an old friend, Del, and Truman (and Frodo). We took it slow, but it was super fun, and Tru did great! Truman wanted to carry my Camelbak for a while, so he carried it from just below the summit ridge up to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-a0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}