{"id":2093,"date":"2018-03-27T20:27:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T03:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2018-03-27T20:27:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T03:27:03","slug":"stupider-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=2093","title":{"rendered":"Stupider Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really need to get stupider friends. Years ago my old climbing partner from Australia came to visit. For part of the trip, he and a friend of his Jesse (now a mutual friend) came up to Seattle for some climbing. I had to work so I missed the second half of the trip \u2013 but I leant Grant my rack. <\/p>\n<p>Well the two of them were nice enough to re-mark my gear \u2013 you know \u2013 just so it was consistently marked and make sure it I got it all back. They marked it with pink tape. Hot pink tape. I would not be surprised to find out if they had to drive round to find it special. When a decade later &#8211; Grant, Jesse, and I went climbing in Colorado we went to upgrade gear \u2013 they presented me with a roll of hot pink duct-tape. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rackupgrade_mar_2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/rackupgrade_mar_2018.jpg\" alt=\"rackupgrade_mar_2018\" width=\"2866\" height=\"3582\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2094\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now whenever I get new gear \u2013 the first thing I do when I get home is mark it all with pink. Hot pink. I need to get stupider friends. This is a practical joke that\u2019s been running for nearly a decade with no sign of ending. On the plus side &#8211; I have yet to meet someone who marks their gear with the same color. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really need to get stupider friends. Years ago my old climbing partner from Australia came to visit. For part of the trip, he and a friend of his Jesse (now a mutual friend) came up to Seattle for some climbing. I had to work so I missed the second half of the trip \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}