{"id":2595,"date":"2019-08-25T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2019-08-25T18:12:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T01:12:37","slug":"wishing-i-was-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2595","title":{"rendered":"Wish I Was Hiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2596\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/omar_2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2596\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/omar_2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">my student Omar in 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Facebook is making me sad.<\/p>\n<p>Because most of my memories this time of year point to a hiking adventure, most with students and most on New Mexico\u2019s Mt. Wheeler.<\/p>\n<p>But I have no such plans this year. I guess it\u2019s because the hiking buddy pool was much larger when I spent my days among 20-somethings.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, maybe the lack of such company is keeping me free of injury.<\/p>\n<p>If so, it\u2019s not a tradeoff I\u2019m ready to accept.<\/p>\n<p>Not yet!<\/p>\n<p>***Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YWyTvApHE7Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">funny video<\/a> of the 2013 trip, edited by my friend Jill Gibson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is making me sad. Because most of my memories this time of year point to a hiking adventure, most with students and most on New Mexico\u2019s Mt. Wheeler. But I have no such plans this year. I guess it\u2019s because the hiking buddy pool was much larger when I spent my days among 20-somethings. [&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-2595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595","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=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}