{"id":343,"date":"2006-12-10T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inaheartbeat.ca\/tyl\/?p=343"},"modified":"2006-12-10T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T02:24:00","slug":"blogging-from-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2006\/12\/10\/blogging-from-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging from Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we are here.<\/p>\n<p>We flew at 33,000 feet in the belly of the great Russian beast.&nbsp; We visited all parts of the plane &#8212; wow, is it neat!&nbsp; It was a wild flight.&nbsp; It took <b>90 seconds<\/b> for the plane to come to a halt on the ice, bumpy but amazing to be here.<\/p>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t get out to Mt. Vinson tonight.&nbsp; Weather is socked in there, even though it&#8217;s only 200 km away and here we have unlimited visibility.&nbsp; We have made camp and are drinking hot drinks in the guides tent at Patriot Hills.&nbsp;&nbsp; The people are lovely, can&#8217;t quite get over Yanick and his camera mic which has a decidedly rude shape and has occasioned some interesting nick names. Visited the medical tent and had a good discussion with Dr. John Apps and Ben who is an ER nurse.&nbsp; All in all feels great to be here. Not too cold; about -10.&nbsp; The team is doing really well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tgwhf-uhn.ca\/html\/events\/antarctica\/images\/blog\/2006-12-10a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tgwhf-uhn.ca\/html\/events\/antarctica\/images\/blog\/2006-12-10b.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we are here. We flew at 33,000 feet in the belly of the great Russian beast.&nbsp; We visited all parts of the plane &#8212; wow, is it neat!&nbsp; It was a wild flight.&nbsp; It took 90 seconds for the plane to come to a halt on the ice, bumpy but amazing to be here. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/2006\/12\/10\/blogging-from-antarctica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blogging from Antarctica&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[15,23],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2006-category","category-updates","tag-antarctica","tag-blog-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhnfdn.ca\/tyl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}