{"id":1626,"date":"2016-02-06T16:03:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T23:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2016-02-06T18:00:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T01:00:54","slug":"syncing-passions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"Syncing Passions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15012.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1627\" \/><\/a>I call it \u201csyncing passions,\u201d combining activities I love, increasing both the effectiveness and enjoyment of each. Like hanging out with students and climbing mountains.<\/p>\n<p>In the last four years, I\u2019ve summited at least a half-dozen times with my favorite people. Plus, we\u2019ve practiced for the higher peaks with a dozen or more excursions into Palo Duro Canyon. <\/p>\n<p>Students know\u2014if you\u2019re going to hang out with Dr. B., you\u2019re going to be hiking, eating, or both.<\/p>\n<p>Wish I could put into words how much pleasure these experiences have given me (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YWyTvApHE7Q\" target =\"blank\">this video captures some of it<\/a>), and I\u2019m already thinking about how to sync passions in retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Am considering travel writing, or maybe restaurant reviews. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>**Thank you Jill Gibson for editing our climbing video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I call it \u201csyncing passions,\u201d combining activities I love, increasing both the effectiveness and enjoyment of each. Like hanging out with students and climbing mountains. In the last four years, I\u2019ve summited at least a half-dozen times with my favorite people. Plus, we\u2019ve practiced for the higher peaks with a dozen or more excursions into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}