{"id":1999,"date":"2010-08-07T07:34:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T14:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2010-08-07T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T14:34:48","slug":"thoughts-on-a-tourist-accident-in-the-grand-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/thoughts-on-a-tourist-accident-in-the-grand-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"thoughts on a tourist accident in the Grand Canyon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and a teen was very, very lucky. He fell 75 feet, and is in &#8216;good&#8217; condition in hospital, after having to be lifted out by rescue chopper.<\/p>\n<p>There is, incidentally, a sign near the rim that says that that chopper ride is somewhere around 30,000 dollars, and you will be billed.<\/p>\n<p>I have a book to recommend: it&#8217;s <em>Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon<\/em>. Fascinating account of the effect the Canyon has on people, among other things, plus the history of the place. We had it for reading on car trips, and it&#8217;s well-written and just fascinating&#8230;especially the two missing boaters, which is a mystery that actually starts in Spokane. We picked up the book at a store at the Canyon, but Amazon has it.<\/p>\n<p>Another of our very favorite car-trip books is <em>Sons of the Profits: There&#8217;s No Business like Grow Business<\/em>, which is a history of underground Seattle&#8230;the most outrageous set of characters that ever founded a city. <\/p>\n<p>Both of these books are non-fiction, and can be read in small doses, great for reading aloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and a teen was very, very lucky. He fell 75 feet, and is in &#8216;good&#8217; condition in hospital, after having to be lifted out by rescue chopper. There is, incidentally, a sign near the rim that says that that chopper ride is somewhere around 30,000 dollars, and you will be billed. I have a book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}