{"id":20638,"date":"2009-09-21T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20638"},"modified":"2009-09-21T15:12:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T22:12:34","slug":"cycling-mt-bike-misc-climbing-19240-feet-by-arm-strength-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20638","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Mt. Bike Misc. &#8211; Climbing 19,240 Feet by Arm Strength Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The moment of truth is almost at hand for a man who is no stranger to the toughest of challenges. In just a few days he&#8217;ll be climbing Africa&#8217;s Mt. Kilimanjaro as no one has ever climbed it before, as CBS News correspondent Karen Brown reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Don&#8217;t tell Chris Waddell he can&#8217;t climb a mountain. This week Waddell will try to become the first paraplegic, on his own power, to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I want them to go, &#8216;Wow, I never thought that was possible,'&#8221; Waddell said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Paralyzed at 20 in a freak ski accident, Waddell went on to become the most decorated Paralympic skier ever. But still, he&#8217;s tired of just being &#8220;a guy in a wheel chair.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2009\/09\/20\/eveningnews\/main5324581.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment of truth is almost at hand for a man who is no stranger to the toughest of challenges. In just a few days he&#8217;ll be climbing Africa&#8217;s Mt. Kilimanjaro as no one has ever climbed it before, as CBS News correspondent Karen Brown reports. Don&#8217;t tell Chris Waddell he can&#8217;t climb a mountain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-misc","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20647,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638\/revisions\/20647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}