{"id":269,"date":"2007-12-26T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=269"},"modified":"2007-12-26T04:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T04:27:00","slug":"between-rock-and-hard-place-by-aron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2007\/12\/between-rock-and-hard-place-by-aron.html","title":{"rendered":"Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About halfway through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000IFS0LI\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Between a Rock and a Hard Place<\/a> you&#8217;re amazed he&#8217;s not already dead because he&#8217;d been risking his life and nearly losing it for a long time before the incident this book chronicles.  By the end, you&#8217;re amazed he&#8217;s still alive.  Although I found his writing grandiose, his ego monumental, and his lack of judgement legendary, I have to admire his fighting spirit and his resourcefulness.  I wouldn&#8217;t have survived.  I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d have wanted to.  Kudos to Aron for getting himself out of the mess he got himself into and more for making the most of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About halfway through Between a Rock and a Hard Place you&#8217;re amazed he&#8217;s not already dead because he&#8217;d been risking his life and nearly losing it for a long time before the incident this book chronicles. By the end, you&#8217;re amazed he&#8217;s still alive. Although I found his writing grandiose, his ego monumental, and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}