{"id":986,"date":"2008-12-31T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/12\/31\/dropping-a-ball\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:55:20","slug":"dropping-a-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/12\/31\/dropping-a-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropping a Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day three of the post-Christmas adventure started with a hike up to the Mount Whitney trailhead through snow, ice, and some impressive scenery.  After spending four hours adding to yesterday&#8217;s blister count I returned to the Suby and took off south with no real destination in mind.  California is one of those unique places where a random highway can lead to truly bizarre sights, and while today&#8217;s find can&#8217;t compare to the weirdness that is the <a href=\"\/journal\/2005\/03\/20\/salton-sea-california\/\">Salton Sea<\/a>, finding myself on a road between a Naval Weapons station and a massive RV\/ATV gathering in the middle of the desert was unusual enough to make the day a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day three of the post-Christmas adventure started with a hike up to the Mount Whitney trailhead through snow, ice, and some impressive scenery. After spending four hours adding to yesterday&#8217;s blister count I returned to the Suby and took off south with no real destination in mind. California is one of those unique places where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/12\/31\/dropping-a-ball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dropping a Ball&#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":[31],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-man-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11101,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/11101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}