{"id":957,"date":"2017-03-05T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2017-03-05T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:45:37","slug":"as-my-excuses-slowly-fall-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/as-my-excuses-slowly-fall-away\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8211; As my excuses slowly fall away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\u00a0[final published version of this post. \u00a0I promise! ]<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><b>From a post on Camino Santiago blog:<\/b><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<div><i>&#8220;<span style=\"background-color: #fcfcff; color: #141414; font-family: georgia,'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 14.6667px;\">For what it&#8217;s worth, last year, at dinner in Castro Urdiales (on the 12th day), I lost a bet (for a nickel) smugly thinking that I could be the oldest present, to another refugee from the Great White North who was five years older (i.e. in his eighties). He too was in no manner of speaking, elderly&#8230;<\/span>&#8221; (1)<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>\u00a0<br style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\" \/>Training hike with 15lb backpack<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>11.91 km on 3\/2\/17<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapmyhike.com\/view_workout?w=2040565004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.mapmyhike.com\/view_<wbr><\/wbr>workout?w=2040565004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-05-at-4.07.19-AM-9.png?resize=544%2C381&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Inline image 1\" width=\"544\" height=\"381\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\" \/><br style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>[hr]<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail-m_-718973312937904117gmail-m_8448099960493798726gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\">(1)\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caminodesantiago.me\/community\/threads\/save-the-bottom-bunks-for-the-elderly.46120\/#post-489144\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.caminodesanti<wbr><\/wbr>ago.me\/community\/threads\/save-<wbr><\/wbr>the-bottom-bunks-for-the-<wbr><\/wbr>elderly.46120\/#post-489144<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU\" style=\"margin: 2px 0px 0px; font-size: 12.8px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0[final published version of this post. \u00a0I promise! ] From a post on Camino Santiago blog: &#8220;For what it&#8217;s worth, last year, at dinner in Castro Urdiales (on the 12th day), I lost a bet (for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino","tag-camino"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32pSF-fr","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jjkpryde.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}