{"id":10953,"date":"2013-10-18T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=10953"},"modified":"2013-10-18T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T17:16:12","slug":"right-as-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/18\/sikkim\/right-as-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Right As Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Phil checked in via Sat phone this morning, about 7:30 a.m. our time.\u00c2\u00a0 Everybody&#8217;s doing great &#8211; walking strong, no issues.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather, however, is less than ideal.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re dealing with leftovers from Cyclone Phailin that hit the east coast of India last weekend, which means a good amount of precipitation for the trekkers.\u00c2\u00a0 The upside is the rain tends to taper off to almost nothing when the team is walking, so they&#8217;re managing to stay dry most of the time.\u00c2\u00a0 The hope is that the worst is over and that clear skies will follow soon!\u00c2\u00a0 All is good.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10956\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Weather-map-of-India-10.18.13.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[10953]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10956\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10956   \" alt=\"Weather map of India region for October 18, 2013 (courtesy of India Meteorological Department) Sikkim area is marked with a red dot.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Weather-map-of-India-10.18.13.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Weather-map-of-India-10.18.13.jpg 572w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Weather-map-of-India-10.18.13-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Weather-map-of-India-10.18.13-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weather map of India region for October 18, 2013 (courtesy of India Meteorological Department) Sikkim area is marked with a red dot.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Becky Kjorvestad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 2013 Phil checked in via Sat phone this morning, about 7:30 a.m. our time.\u00c2\u00a0 Everybody&#8217;s doing great &#8211; walking strong, no issues.\u00c2\u00a0 Weather, however, is less than ideal.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re dealing with leftovers from Cyclone Phailin that hit the east coast of India last weekend, which means a good amount of precipitation for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sikkim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10961,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/revisions\/10961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}