{"id":2044,"date":"2007-04-30T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T23:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2007-04-30T19:45:30","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T23:45:30","slug":"the-canyon-chronicles-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/04\/30\/the-canyon-chronicles-prologue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canyon Chronicles &#8211; Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DATE: April 3<br \/>\nSUBJECT: The canyon lands<br \/>\nTO: the fogies4<br \/>\nFROM: Phil<br \/>\n    Guys,<\/p>\n<p>    I&#8217;m happy to report that I will be able to make the canyon lands trip.<br \/>\n    I will arrive in Grand Junction, if the flight is on time, at 2:32 on the<br \/>\n    20th.<br \/>\n    Phil<\/p>\n<p>DATE: April 15<br \/>\nSUBJECT: The canyon lands<br \/>\nTO: the fogies4<br \/>\nFROM: Phil<br \/>\n    Guys,<br \/>\n    I cannot make this trip after all.  I&#8217;ve developed what appears to be a radiculopathy, i.e, a pinched    nerve in my back.<\/p>\n<p>    Won&#8217;t know about the future till I get more information, hopefully next week,  but I&#8217;m definitely out of action for this trip.<\/p>\n<p>    Hope you guys have a great time.  I would really liked to have been along.<\/p>\n<p>    Phil<\/p>\n<p>DATE: April 15: <many messages of commiseration><\/p>\n<p>DATE: April 16<br \/>\nSUBJECT: Now it&#8217;s a 3-man trip<br \/>\nTO: the fogies4<br \/>\nFROM: ed<\/p>\n<p>   Guys,<\/p>\n<p>   Well, I guess we should take Chuck&#8217;s 1-man tent and someone&#8217;s 2-man tent. I&#8217;ll leave it to you guys to sort out the common gear. What I have is too common to be common.<\/p>\n<p>   Ed<\/p>\n<p>DATE: April 17<br \/>\nSUBJECT: Dropping like flies<br \/>\nTO: the fogies4<br \/>\nFROM: ed<\/p>\n<p>   Guys,<\/p>\n<p>   I may have a urinary tract infection.  I&#8217;ll have to wait to see what the doctors say about me going on the trip.<\/p>\n<p>   Ed<\/p>\n<p>DATE: April 18<br \/>\nSUBJECT: Dropping like flies<br \/>\nTO: the fogies4<br \/>\nFROM: ed<br \/>\n   Guys,<\/p>\n<p>   It looks like I can go to Escalante after all!<br \/>\n   I&#8217;m on an antibiotic (Cipro), and I&#8217;m supposed to drink lots of water, so I&#8217;m bringing 4 1-liter water bottles.<\/p>\n<p>   Now we&#8217;re on track for leaving on the 20th.<\/p>\n<p>   Ed<\/p>\n<p>DATE: April 18<br \/>\nSUBJECT: Dropping like flies<br \/>\nTO: the fogies4<br \/>\nFROM: reed<br \/>\n   Ed- you are a good man. I thought it would be okay to take the antibiotics with you on the trail. Chuck and I will make sure you take it religiously twice a day.  It goes down well with the scotch. See you on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>   Reed<\/p>\n<p>DATE: April 18<br \/>\nSUBJECT: Dropping like flies<br \/>\nTO: the fogies4<br \/>\nFROM: chuck<\/p>\n<p>   Whew!   Back on track. <\/p>\n<p>   Chuck<\/p>\n<p>DATE: April 20 <sounds of truck and airplanes heading west><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;rakkity<\/p>\n<p><\/sounds><\/many><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DATE: April 3 SUBJECT: The canyon lands TO: the fogies4 FROM: Phil Guys, I&#8217;m happy to report that I will be able to make the canyon lands trip. I will arrive in Grand Junction, if the flight is on time, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/04\/30\/the-canyon-chronicles-prologue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}