{"id":255,"date":"2007-09-05T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=255"},"modified":"2007-09-05T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T00:02:00","slug":"addicted-to-danger-by-jim-wickwire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/09\/addicted-to-danger-by-jim-wickwire.html","title":{"rendered":"Addicted to Danger by Jim Wickwire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guy&#8217;s kind of unlucky.  I mean, he made it to the top of practically nothing and he watched a lot of people die.  On the other hand, he&#8217;s kind of lucky.  He didn&#8217;t die himself, despite some stupid choices like bivouacing near the summit of K2, and he has a wife and family who love him, despite some selfish choices like repeatedly missing birthdays and anniversarys so he could climb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0671019910\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Addicted to Danger<\/a> isn&#8217;t a bad read, but I felt bad reading it.  I know people who&#8217;ve been less selfish and have gotten less.  On the other hand, I know people who have been so devoted to their families and jobs that they haven&#8217;t realized themselves.  Perhaps Jim Wickwire walked a fine line and walked it well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy&#8217;s kind of unlucky. I mean, he made it to the top of practically nothing and he watched a lot of people die. On the other hand, he&#8217;s kind of lucky. He didn&#8217;t die himself, despite some stupid choices like bivouacing near the summit of K2, and he has a wife and family who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosauto-biosmemoirs","category-climbing","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}