{"id":67527,"date":"2012-08-01T06:55:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67527"},"modified":"2012-08-01T06:55:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T13:55:38","slug":"climber-scales-200ft-cliff-despite-having-no-legs-one-of-his-false-limbs-falls-off-halfway-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=67527","title":{"rendered":"Climber scales 200ft cliff despite having no legs (one of his false limbs falls off halfway up)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Heroic Hugh Herr enjoys nothing more than scaling a cliff &#8211; even though both his legs were amputated after a disastrous climbing expedition when he was a teenager.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As if conquering a 200ft rock face wasn&#8217;t hard enough, one of his prosthetic legs fell off during his latest climb &#8211; but he calmly waited for it to be roped back up to him before making it to the top.<span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr Herr runs a lab making bionic legs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and insists artificial limbs are an advantage\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2181527\/Who-Says-I-Cant-climber-scales-200ft-cliff-despite-having-legs--false-limbs-falling-halfway-up.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroic Hugh Herr enjoys nothing more than scaling a cliff &#8211; even though both his legs were amputated after a disastrous climbing expedition when he was a teenager. As if conquering a 200ft rock face wasn&#8217;t hard enough, one of his prosthetic legs fell off during his latest climb &#8211; but he calmly waited for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-climbing-mountain-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67527","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=67527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67528,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67527\/revisions\/67528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}