{"id":24557,"date":"2016-08-13T20:45:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24557"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:45:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:45:37","slug":"at-the-end-of-the-john-muir-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/at-the-end-of-the-john-muir-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"At the end of the John Muir Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on rocks above the alpine lake<br \/>\nour spare dinner eaten under<br \/>\na canopy of high sierra sky,<br \/>\nwe waited for the full moon to rise.<\/p>\n<p>We planned at the end of our 30 day trek<br \/>\nto climb the back end of<br \/>\nof Mt Whitney and arrive on top<br \/>\njust as the sun rises.<\/p>\n<p>Miscalculations of food supplies<br \/>\nleft us with hunger in spirit and mind<br \/>\nwith all thoughts of glory abandoned.<br \/>\nHail on top sent us back down to head home.<\/p>\n<p>I turned twenty-one during the trip,<br \/>\nbroke my glasses, lost weight, climbed Mt Sill and<br \/>\nhad my first peak experience<br \/>\nwhich still gives pause me now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on rocks above the alpine lake our spare dinner eaten under a canopy of high sierra sky, we waited for the full moon to rise. We planned at the end of our 30 day trek to climb the back end of of Mt Whitney&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24806,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557\/revisions\/24806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}