{"id":704,"date":"2006-01-31T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/01\/31\/id-rather-be-a-hammer-than-a-nail\/"},"modified":"2006-01-31T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T08:30:00","slug":"id-rather-be-a-hammer-than-a-nail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/01\/31\/id-rather-be-a-hammer-than-a-nail\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;d Rather be a Hammer than a Nail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief update:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After a quick two days in the Bay Area I&#8217;m back in Los Angeles now, trying to catch up on the past month and unpack.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s gonna be a few more days before the trip photos are online.  Using the logic that given enough opportunity even a monkey can shoot a decent photo I took a <u>lot<\/u> of photos.  The downside of that approach is that it takes forever to sort through and delete the crappy ones.<\/li>\n<li>Two spots have opened up for this year&#8217;s <a href=\"\/journal\/2003\/05\/08\/quito-ecuador\/\">Galapagos trip<\/a> in May.  Cost is $3400 per person for two weeks, not including airfare to Quito.  Email me if you&#8217;re interested.<\/li>\n<li>Shameless pimping: visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodplanck.com\/\">Rod&#8217;s web site<\/a>, sign up for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodplanck.com\/rpp_sw.htm\">workshops<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/rodplanck.com\/rpp_sto_book_new.htm\">buy his book<\/a>.  They&#8217;re all worth it.  Then visit <a href=\"http:\/\/hughrosephotography.com\/\">Hugh&#8217;s web site<\/a> (especially the aurora images) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davislynnimages.com\/\">Tim&#8217;s web site<\/a>.  These guys make it clear why I&#8217;ll never be a professional photographer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief update: After a quick two days in the Bay Area I&#8217;m back in Los Angeles now, trying to catch up on the past month and unpack. It&#8217;s gonna be a few more days before the trip photos are online. Using the logic that given enough opportunity even a monkey can shoot a decent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/01\/31\/id-rather-be-a-hammer-than-a-nail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#039;d Rather be a Hammer than a Nail&#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-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","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=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}