{"id":2216,"date":"2008-02-18T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/18\/i-dont-care-how-low-the-water-is-these-people-are-crazy\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:42:00","slug":"i-dont-care-how-low-the-water-is-these-people-are-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/18\/i-dont-care-how-low-the-water-is-these-people-are-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t care how &quot;low the water is&quot; &#8212; these people are crazy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon, Will saw a picture of Mount Everest with hikers climbing around in some area low enough and far enough away that they were relatively mildly dressed and outfitted.  It was such a causal picture that it almost didn&#8217;t seem out of the ordinary for Will to suggest, &#8220;we should go hiking there one day.&#8221;  I explained that this was the tallest mountain in the world and that it was very far away and very dangerous.  No matter, he was hooked: &#8220;Mommy, can we go there?  Can we hike on the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Tallest Mountain In The World<\/span>???&#8221;  (The fascination was extreme; he spoke those last words in Capital.)<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, the universe is laughing at me.  Because the one thing I made Paul swear he would NEVER, under ANY circumstances take up was extreme mountaineering.  I do not want to ever be in a position where I am biting my nails while someone I love is playing that roulette game with nature: the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Into_Thin_Air\">Into Thin Air<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120661\/\">IMAX <\/a>convinced me of this.   It would figure that Will is now fascinated with the idea of climbing Everest.  (Mental Note: work on instilling fear of heights into children.)<\/p>\n<p>We now have a second &#8220;No You CANNOT, Not EVER, NEVER.&#8221;  I don&#8217;t care how the water is low and the current mild.   <a href=\"http:\/\/fogonazos.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/swimming-at-edge-of-victoria-falls.html\">This is crazy<\/a>!<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_7_gMFng3OpY\/R6uT7GtKT9I\/AAAAAAAADH8\/G-Zi_EG_3cc\/s400\/306461756_85f05ee7b5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_7_gMFng3OpY\/R6uT7GtKT9I\/AAAAAAAADH8\/G-Zi_EG_3cc\/s400\/306461756_85f05ee7b5.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>h\/t: <a href=\"http:\/\/growabrain.typepad.com\/\">growabrain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon, Will saw a picture of Mount Everest with hikers climbing around in some area low enough and far enough away that they were relatively mildly dressed and outfitted. It was such a causal picture that it almost didn&#8217;t seem out of the ordinary for Will to suggest, &#8220;we should go hiking there one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}