{"id":103,"date":"2012-06-13T23:03:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T23:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2012-06-14T00:16:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T00:16:23","slug":"itching-to-get-on-some-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Itching to get on Some Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is ostensibly about climbing, as well as more activisty stuff, because one day I&#8217;m going to stop caring about the world and go and be a climber bum, because climbing and related activities are my passion.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we&#8217;re currently planning a holiday to the Alps in August, about which I&#8217;m as excited as a kid with an advent calendar. In the meantime, I&#8217;d like to get outdoors in the UK, but the weather is awful, so am currently pretty much confined to climbing gyms.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s me lead climbing a short 5+ route in the Castle in London. It&#8217;s quite overhangy and there&#8217;s a bit where one <i>almost<\/i> has to &#8220;cut loose&#8221; (i.e. cast off with feet and hang on the arms), above my protection which would make a fall &#8220;interesting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>My style could be cleaner in places, but I think it&#8217;s fairly tidy, and so am quite happy with this. I&#8217;m finding watching it useful though because it&#8217;s giving me pointers as to what I need to tighten up.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enjoy &#8211; I had fun climbing it. I&#8217;m only allowed to use the yellow ones.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steep 5+ at The Castle\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZbfDSjKbcU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is ostensibly about climbing, as well as more activisty stuff, because one day I&#8217;m going to stop caring about the world and go and be a climber bum, because climbing and related activities are my passion. Anyway, we&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/?p=103\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2cuUO-1F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahlizzy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}