{"id":1088,"date":"2011-09-25T19:40:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2022-03-04T20:19:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T20:19:24","slug":"fear-of-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/25\/fear-of-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have always been afraid of heights. Still remember a few years back when my friend Bill and I went to The Grand Canyon’s North Rim, and even though the path to the top was about 15-20 ft. wide, I literally CRAWLED up because I was so afraid of “rolling over the edge” down the canyon (meanwhile children were running and giggling by me).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks ago Bill came by to LA over the weekend and we decided to take a spontaneous trip out to Joshua Tree to take some pictures. There were so many rock formations<\/a>… I strangely had the urge to take a picture from atop one of these boulder piles<\/a>… hmmm – what about my fear of heights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fear is still there – I just refused to look down and just kept climbing (with my new camera safely tucked away, of course):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The satisfaction of taking this picture once I got to the top? Priceless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bill was quite surprised that I made it up to the top \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It took me quite a bit longer to come down afterwards, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things I would do these days to get a good shot \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have always been afraid of heights. Still remember a few years back when my friend Bill and I went to The Grand Canyon’s North Rim, and even though the path to the top was about 15-20 ft. wide, I literally CRAWLED up because I was so afraid of “rolling over the edge” down the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-57.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}