{"id":4381,"date":"2010-03-23T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2014-07-26T03:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T22:09:37","slug":"musing-about-the-ibex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/musing-about-the-ibex\/","title":{"rendered":"Musing about&#8230; the Ibex."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4401\" title=\"Ibex\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ibex1.jpg\" alt=\"Ibex\" width=\"400\" height=\"483\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one for all my climbing buddies (some of whom have made themselves <em>damn scarce<\/em> of late, if I may say so). Ev\u2019s daughter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=3585\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer<\/a> just forwarded the following ditty to me, from one of her 5-year-old son Sam\u2019s favorite* books\u2026 eloquently expressing a truism we know all too well.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">The daring ibex risk their necks<br \/>\nOn scary airy mountain treks.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Each one must climb with skill complex<br \/>\nOr else become an ex-ibex.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/1484419.mammalabilia\" target=\"_blank\">Mammalabilia: poems and paintings<\/a> by Douglas Florian<em>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba Here\u2019s one for all my climbing buddies (some of whom have made themselves damn scarce of late, if I may say so). Ev\u2019s daughter Jennifer just forwarded the following ditty to me, from one of her 5-year-old son Sam\u2019s favorite* books\u2026 eloquently expressing a truism we know all too well. The daring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14424,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions\/14424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}