{"id":3467,"date":"2011-10-25T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T18:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2011\/10\/25\/elevation\/"},"modified":"2011-10-31T16:45:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T21:45:55","slug":"elevation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2011\/10\/25\/elevation\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 2 1\/2 miles from the water tower and l&#8217;ve gained 1500 feet. I can see sagebrush sand and rocks,  green and pink hued mountains. The sun is warm, not hot and though I drink a lot I&#8217;m not thirsty. <\/p>\n<p>Silence? Not as much as you think as sounds reverberate from the city below. Although since there&#8217;s no one here to talk to I have to generate my own noise. I feel like an old refrigerator.There&#8217;s this whirring noise and then long periods of silence. <\/p>\n<p>As I look out over the desert I don&#8217;t see Peter nearby. I know, I sound like Irene the psychic, but I just think he&#8217;s closer to home. Wishful thinking? Maybe, but that&#8217;s the only way Peter&#8217;s going to be found. There are neither hunters nor hikers or mountain bikers to stumble upon the man. <\/p>\n<p>I have a heavy heart for Ken. Hard enough to be present with your parents when they die, but you have to face the hurt to process your own changes, to grow as a person. What would you do if your father just disappeared?<\/p>\n<p>I love the sound of your voice, Hilary, you&#8217;ve always been one of the blogs biggest cheerleaders. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025-112229.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20111025-112229.jpg\" alt=\"20111025-112229.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 2 1\/2 miles from the water tower and l&#8217;ve gained 1500 feet. I can see sagebrush sand and rocks, green and pink hued mountains. The sun is warm, not hot and though I drink a lot I&#8217;m not thirsty. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2011\/10\/25\/elevation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","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=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3592,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}