{"id":1307,"date":"2010-08-02T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2010-08-02T21:58:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T03:58:41","slug":"a-story-for-lacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/a-story-for-lacy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Story For Lacy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we once again lost a good friend to the mountains, this time <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/in-loving-memory-of-lacy-meadows\/\">Lacy Meadows.<\/a>  His passing brought back many memories of <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/jack-hannan\/\">Jack Hannan&#8217;s<\/a> tragic accident just a few months ago.  In particular, I kept thinking of a day last spring when I had a chat with a bird while climbing <a href=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/tr-mount-wilson-30-may-2010\/\">Mount Wilson.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A chat with a bird, you say?  What a hippy!&#8221;  Well, here&#8217;s the story.  A raven was flying overhead, soaring along a nearby ridge, when he decided to land near me, just 15 feet away.  I was reminded of the movie <em>Steep,<\/em> and the part when the late great Doug Coombs discusses seeing black birds in the Alps, and they represent his fallen friends who passed away in the mountains.  So I kept climbing, and this bird started walking with me, always no more than 15 feet away.  I was a bit ahead of Brittany at that time, so it was just me and this bird, walking up towards the pass.  Well, I decided right than and there that that bird was Jack, so we had a little talk.  It was reassuring to know that Jack was there with us on a difficult peak, showing us the way and leading us to the top of a difficult peak.  I&#8217;m not spiritual by any means, but there was something about that bird and thinking about Jack that I won&#8217;t soon forget.  I look forward to seeing Lacy soaring above me on a fine mountain day in the future, and having a little talk with him too.  <\/p>\n<p>Miss you Lacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we once again lost a good friend to the mountains, this time Lacy Meadows. His passing brought back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}