{"id":559,"date":"2006-07-18T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=559"},"modified":"2006-07-18T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T14:00:37","slug":"i-think-hed-really-rather-have-his-hand-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/07\/18\/i-think-hed-really-rather-have-his-hand-back\/","title":{"rendered":"I think he&#8217;d really rather have his hand back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/other_business\/article\/0,2777,DRMN_23916_4846232,00.html\">Rocky Mountain News profiles Aron Ralston,<\/a> whose path to fame and fortune involved cutting off a limb to save his fanny.  Now he&#8217;s swimming in cash from speaking engagements, commercial endorsements, book royalties, etc.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ralston said the book advance exceeded $1 million, but he declined to be specific.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHe still drives the maroon 1998 Toyota truck rescuers were looking for in Utah. But he did splurge on the purchase of a townhome in Aspen.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;When I look out the window I joke I gave my right arm for this view,&#8221; Ralston says. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that gets great laughs among the Aspen zillionaires, who need fresh reminders of the gruesome realities of life in flyover land now that Hunter S. Thompson is dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky Mountain News profiles Aron Ralston, whose path to fame and fortune involved cutting off a limb to save his fanny. Now he&#8217;s swimming in cash from speaking engagements, commercial endorsements, book royalties, etc. Ralston said the book advance exceeded&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/07\/18\/i-think-hed-really-rather-have-his-hand-back\/\">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":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"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=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}