{"id":12174,"date":"2014-07-20T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T21:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=12174"},"modified":"2014-07-20T13:53:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T21:53:02","slug":"theyre-off-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/20\/elbrus\/theyre-off-and-running\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c2\u00a0They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off and Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"color: #444444;\">July 20, 2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12175\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1012.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[12174]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12175\" class=\"wp-image-12175 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1012.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1012\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1012.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1012-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1012-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1012-940x705.jpg 940w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1012-620x465.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1012-195x146.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Isaac\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cathedral in St. Petersburg<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"color: #444444;\">Mike Hamill checked in today from St. Petersburg where Igor Tsaruk and he met our second Elbrus team of the 2014 season.\u00c2\u00a0 First big hurdle has been cleared \u00e2\u20ac\u201c almost.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone made it in and has been checked into our hotel, had dinner and sent off to bed.\u00c2\u00a0 Two bags have not yet arrived but shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be an issue.\u00c2\u00a0 The team has all of tomorrow for those bags to catch up prior to the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s departure for the Caucasus.\u00c2\u00a0 Two nights in St. Petersburg, on arrival, makes dealing with delayed luggage easier.\u00c2\u00a0 Not easy, but easier.\u00c2\u00a0 Full day of touring tomorrow with an English speaking guide.\u00c2\u00a0 Fun to begin to get a feel for Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecxMsoNormal\" style=\"color: #444444;\">Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 20, 2014 Mike Hamill checked in today from St. Petersburg where Igor Tsaruk and he met our second Elbrus team of the 2014 season.\u00c2\u00a0 First big hurdle has been cleared \u00e2\u20ac\u201c almost.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone made it in and has been checked into our hotel, had dinner and sent off to bed.\u00c2\u00a0 Two bags have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elbrus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174","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=12174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12177,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions\/12177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}