{"id":792,"date":"2006-10-28T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/10\/28\/culver-city-california\/"},"modified":"2011-01-22T13:50:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T21:50:51","slug":"culver-city-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/10\/28\/culver-city-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Culver City, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first year since 2002 that I&#8217;m not going to be in Antarctica during the Winter, and I&#8217;m going through a bit of withdrawal.  Reading through my journal entry from <a href=\"\/journal\/2004\/10\/27\/southern-atlantic-ocean-16\/\">this day two years ago<\/a>, however, makes the withdrawal a bit easier to bear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In the words of Shane, &#8220;What kind of shit have I gotten myself into now?&#8221;  Winds are sustained at thirty-to-forty knots, waves are twelve-to-fifteen feet, and the boat is jumping like a Mexican bean.  With the assistance of drugs my vision is horribly blurred but I&#8217;m not feeling ill, although several of the fellow passengers have been heaving forth with great gusto throughout the day.  One thing they don&#8217;t tell you about rough seas is that while walking around is very, very tough, using the bathroom is practically a gymnastic event.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even with the threat of hideous seasickness it would be nice to be heading back again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"\/photos\/south_georgia\/highlights\/pages\/2004-10-A\/0038-right-whale-bay-king-penguins_RJ.html#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"King Penguin and Chicks at Right Whale Bay\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2004-10-A\/0038-right-whale-bay-king-penguins_RJ.jpg\" width=\"600\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">King Penguin &amp; Chicks at Right Whale Bay<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first year since 2002 that I&#8217;m not going to be in Antarctica during the Winter, and I&#8217;m going through a bit of withdrawal. Reading through my journal entry from this day two years ago, however, makes the withdrawal a bit easier to bear: In the words of Shane, &#8220;What kind of shit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2006\/10\/28\/culver-city-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Culver City, 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-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2563,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}