{"id":13756,"date":"2015-06-24T08:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=13756"},"modified":"2015-06-24T08:35:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:35:54","slug":"and-theyre-off-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/24\/kilimanjaro\/and-theyre-off-7\/","title":{"rendered":"And They&#8217;re Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 24, 2015<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13757\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/And-They-Are-Off.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[13756]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13757\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/And-They-Are-Off.jpg\" alt=\"And They Are Off\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/And-They-Are-Off.jpg 720w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/And-They-Are-Off-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/And-They-Are-Off-620x827.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/And-They-Are-Off-146x195.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And They Are Off<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Combine a great group of climbers and a great guide like Andy Politz and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just hard to miss.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple of super nice families filled most of our 22 June Kilimanjaro departure.\u00c2\u00a0 Several teenagers in the group, too, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tearing it up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re moving right along with zero issues.\u00c2\u00a0 People arrived and bags arrived right on schedule and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve completed their first day on the trail today.\u00c2\u00a0 4,000 vertical foot gain took them to the Machame camp at 10,000 ft.\u00c2\u00a0 First day is a big one and the views just get better each day.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ershler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 24, 2015 Combine a great group of climbers and a great guide like Andy Politz and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just hard to miss.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple of super nice families filled most of our 22 June Kilimanjaro departure.\u00c2\u00a0 Several teenagers in the group, too, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tearing it up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re moving right along with zero issues.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kilimanjaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756","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=13756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13758,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions\/13758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}