{"id":1909,"date":"2018-05-13T20:38:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T00:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2018-05-13T20:55:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T00:55:05","slug":"beta-goes-rock-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1909","title":{"rendered":"Beta Goes Rock Climbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back at Christmas, Meghan came up with a most appropriate gift for Beta: time at the local rock climbing gym<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We didn’t use it right away because we were out of the country, and then something always seemed to come up or we just weren’t thinking about it, until this past week.\u00a0 I remembered about the rock gym, Meghan arranged a time, and this morning (Mother’s Day to boot) we showed up for the first of five sessions.<\/p>\n

A rock climbing gym, in case you’ve never been, is a series of walls with a random assortment of hand-holds embedded into the surface.\u00a0 It’s meant to simulate rock climbing enough to help you build strength and skill.<\/p>\n

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Beta nearing the top of a difficult ascent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You wear a harness and clip onto a rope.\u00a0 Some faces have auto-belays, some have ropes slung and wrapped over a bar above the face (pulley-style) so a partner eases you down.\u00a0 The ‘cave’ wall has no ropes, as the entire face is inverted.\u00a0 It has a very thick pad to land on instead.<\/p>\n

We booked two hours, and Beta made it through impressive one and a half hours of it.\u00a0 By the end she had “spaghetti arms,” but she was talking about going back before we were even back in the car.\u00a0 Score one for mom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Way back at Christmas, Meghan came up with a most appropriate gift for Beta: time at the local rock climbing gym. We didn’t use it right away because we were out of the country, and then something always seemed to come up or we just weren’t thinking about it, until this past week.\u00a0 I remembered … Continue reading “Beta Goes Rock Climbing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[165,350,422,423],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-beta","tag-local-things-to-do","tag-rock-wall-gym","tag-woburn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-uN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1915,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}