{"id":2333,"date":"2021-11-20T16:28:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/20\/alls-well-that-ends-well\/"},"modified":"2021-11-20T16:28:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T16:28:39","slug":"alls-well-that-ends-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/20\/alls-well-that-ends-well\/","title":{"rendered":"All&#8217;s Well that Ends Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The hike was almost over.&#0160; The light was failing as we gingerly negotiated the last steps of the treacherous downgrade of Heart Attack Hill on the Bluff Spring Trail in the Superstition Mountains.&#0160; Suddenly my hiking partner let out a yell and jumped back at the unmistakable sound of a diamond back rattlesnake (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reptilesofaz.org\/Snakes-Subpages\/h-c-atrox.html\" target=\"_self\">crotalus atrox<\/a>).&#0160; It was a perfect hike: physically demanding in excellent company with a dash of danger at the end.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c026bdf01bfc2200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rattler Heart Attack Hill\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c026bdf01bfc2200c image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c026bdf01bfc2200c-800wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Rattler Heart Attack Hill\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hike was almost over.&#0160; The light was failing as we gingerly negotiated the last steps of the treacherous downgrade of Heart Attack Hill on the Bluff Spring Trail in the Superstition Mountains.&#0160; Suddenly my hiking partner let out a yell and jumped back at the unmistakable sound of a diamond back rattlesnake (crotalus atrox).&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/20\/alls-well-that-ends-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All&#8217;s Well that Ends Well&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,92,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-autobiographical","category-hiking-and-backpacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}