{"id":10208,"date":"2004-06-27T09:32:59","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T09:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10208"},"modified":"2004-06-27T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T09:32:59","slug":"white-water-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/27\/white-water-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"White Water Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my crew assaulted the Lehigh River in real time and without stunt doubles.  OK, so they weren&#8217;t exactly my crew.   They were weekend warriors in search of a good time with a combined total of 22 minutes of rafting instructions among us.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of our seaworthiness, we rocked that raft from one end of the 15 mile course to the other.  I learned one very important lesson: never argue with a rock in the Lehigh River particularly when approaching at high speeds.  The rock will win.  <\/p>\n<p>Between runs on the rapids, the tour guides gave us tips on how to negotiate the next stretches of raging water and avoid the pitfalls.  At the last break I saw a chance to talk to one of the guides for a minute.  I asked all the important questions.<\/p>\n<p>sam: Anyone die out here?<br \/>\nGuide: Roughly one dozen people die on this course a year.<br \/>\nsam: How about on this tour?  Will we make it?<br \/>\nGuide:  Probably.  We&#8217;ve never lost someone due to drowning or head trauma.<br \/>\nsam:  So people have died?<br \/>\nGuide:  A couple heart attacks.<br \/>\nsam:  Do you get a refund for that?<br \/>\nGuide: No.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my crew assaulted the Lehigh River in real time and without stunt doubles. OK, so they weren&#8217;t exactly my crew. They were weekend warriors in search of a good time with a combined total of 22 minutes of rafting instructions among us. Regardless of our seaworthiness, we rocked that raft from one end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}