{"id":972,"date":"2012-09-22T01:55:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T01:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2013-02-17T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T15:54:53","slug":"why-do-we-climb-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Climb Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_206\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-206\" title=\"Totem Pole_Climbing Stories_Monument Valley_John Mattson_Adventure Travel\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tp1-201x300.jpg\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tp1-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/tp1.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Mattson climbing the Totem Pole in Monument Valley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My wife and I recently met an Argentine psychiatrist on the top of a small mountain in Patagonia, and I couldn\u2019t resist the age-old question, \u201cWhy do people climb mountains?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told us jokingly that we were both very crazy, and that we should come to his office as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause they are there,\u201d or \u201cIf you have to ask the question, you won\u2019t understand the answer,\u201d are the most common stock responses I\u2019ve heard, but the true reason is much more difficult to define.<\/p>\n<p>The Rest of the Story: <a title=\"Rest of the story\" href=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?page_id=12\">\u00a0https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?page_id=12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Totem Pole: <a title=\"The Totem Pole\" href=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?page_id=30\">\u00a0https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?page_id=30<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I recently met an Argentine psychiatrist on the top of a small mountain in Patagonia, and I couldn\u2019t resist the age-old question, \u201cWhy do people climb mountains?\u201d He told us jokingly that we were both very crazy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/?p=972\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[207,127,394,385,280],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing-on-the-edge","tag-adventure-books","tag-adventure-travel-books","tag-climbing-stories","tag-totem-pole","tag-why-climb-mountains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danceonedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}