{"id":627,"date":"2006-08-28T08:17:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T13:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=627"},"modified":"2006-08-28T08:17:41","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T13:17:41","slug":"a-kilimanjaro-survivors-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/08\/28\/a-kilimanjaro-survivors-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kilimanjaro survivor&#8217;s tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060828\/COLUMNISTS11\/608280311\/1147\/LIFE\">A writer for the Honolulu Advertiser recounts: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At 18,000 feet, the altitude ambushed me. I could barely breathe, and my water bottles were frozen solid. My head pulsed, my legs wobbled like a newborn calf&#8217;s and I saw things that were not there. Then I started throwing up and falling down.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs we reached the summit, however, I saw the most amazing sunrise.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nA bright orange orb burst through a bumpy white blanket of clouds that encircled the mountain. The ice field and glacier glistened white and orange in the morning light.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nYatin and I were able to force smiles through bleeding, wind-burned lips before I puked again.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, the mystique of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer for the Honolulu Advertiser recounts: At 18,000 feet, the altitude ambushed me. I could barely breathe, and my water bottles were frozen solid. My head pulsed, my legs wobbled like a newborn calf&#8217;s and I saw things that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/08\/28\/a-kilimanjaro-survivors-tale\/\">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},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}