{"id":489,"date":"2005-02-03T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/02\/03\/san-francisco-california\/"},"modified":"2005-02-03T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T21:05:00","slug":"san-francisco-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/02\/03\/san-francisco-california\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the morning playing tourist in San Francisco (Pier 39, Lombard Street, the whole works &#8212; I&#8217;m mildly ashamed of myself) I&#8217;m now back in the Financial District, less than a block from the skyscraper I used to work in.  Just hearing snippets of the conversations around me &#8212; &#8220;Are you meeting&#8217;d out yet?&#8221;, &#8220;You&#8217;re right, I&#8217;ll get that document ready as soon as I get back&#8221;, &#8220;I could barely keep my eyes open during that call this morning&#8221; &#8212; I&#8217;m realizing more than ever how glad I am to have escaped that life.  While those folks are now all returning to their cubicles, I&#8217;m sitting in Starbucks across from a ridiculously hot Japanese girl enjoying whatever folksy music it is they&#8217;ve got coming through the speakers.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of thinking how good life is at the moment, especially compared to the suit-wearing souls I&#8217;m surrounded by, it occurred to me that <a href=\"\/journal-2004-02.html\">this time last year<\/a> I was finishing up five amazing days of hiking around Mt. Fitz Roy in Patagonia.  Happiness definitely comes in a wide range of dosages.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/antarctica\/highlights\/pages\/40-roll\/13-fitz-roy-landscape.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mt. Fitz Roy\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"600\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/40-roll\/13-fitz-roy-landscape.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Mount Fitz Roy<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the morning playing tourist in San Francisco (Pier 39, Lombard Street, the whole works &#8212; I&#8217;m mildly ashamed of myself) I&#8217;m now back in the Financial District, less than a block from the skyscraper I used to work in. Just hearing snippets of the conversations around me &#8212; &#8220;Are you meeting&#8217;d out yet?&#8221;, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2005\/02\/03\/san-francisco-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;San Francisco, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}