{"id":113,"date":"2005-11-13T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-13T12:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T17:40:40","slug":"the-cables-at-the-half-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/11\/13\/the-cables-at-the-half-dome\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cables at the Half Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/travel\/print\/sfl-halfdomenov13,0,3872615.story?coll=sfla-travel-print\">A writer confronts The Cables at the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So now what? Do I hurl my hands forward and reach for the cables, hoping in the split second my hands are free I don&#8217;t slip? Or should I shuffle my feet ahead, then pull my body forward? I look up. The next set of posts is close. I inhale, hurl my right leg forward and catch it on the right post. The Fat Ankle has landed. I curl my leg around the post and heave my body into a standing position. If a crab and a tree sloth had a one-night stand, I could be their lovechild. The lovechild takes a breath. Looks down.<\/p>\n<p>\nOkay, six feet. Not so far. But still.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last summer I hiked around the Half Dome for a whole day and it pretty much allowed me to take the place off my Life List.  The parts that are not straight up are still <em>amazingly steep. <\/em>  Lots of folks who have fear of  heights  chicken out at The Cables. I&#8217;m sure I would.  One man&#8217;s fear is another man&#8217;s survival instinct.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer confronts The Cables at the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park So now what? Do I hurl my hands forward and reach for the cables, hoping in the split second my hands are free I don&#8217;t slip? Or&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/11\/13\/the-cables-at-the-half-dome\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}