{"id":12822,"date":"2013-06-20T06:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T11:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12822"},"modified":"2013-06-20T06:20:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T11:20:06","slug":"why-leave-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/why-leave-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Leave Childhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/health-med-fit\/tree-climbing-gains-popularity-as-a-full-body-outdoor-workout\/article_48255a68-be16-5453-9ea7-5e313fd1e6e7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tree-climbing gains popularity as a full-body, outdoor workout<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tree-climbing is emerging as a recreational sport, similar to rock climbing.<\/p>\n<p>Local instructor Guy Mott says tree-climbing builds muscles and can lead to improved fitness and weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you engage in a tree climb, it is a full-body workout. It is much more interactive and therapeutic to be outside as opposed to a gym,\u201d said Mott. \u201cIt helps people to gain an appreciation for nature.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only is it reliving, albeit in a limited fashion, one of the joys of childhood, but it&#8217;s experiencing it in a way that we did not as children but that we&#8217;ve forced onto them.  Namely, it&#8217;s highly ritualized, highly supervised, taught in the right fashion, and with a bunch of safety equipment.  It&#8217;s regression for the scaredy-cat set.<\/p>\n<p>Juxtaposed, another headline in the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> today:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/worker-for-tree-removal-company-dies-on-the-job\/article_5a7d9fee-84b1-5056-b4ff-74054c683ccb.html\" target=\"_blank\">Worker for tree removal company dies on the job<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Really.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the more people in trees, the fewer people hogging the pec fly machine at the gym, so to each his own when it&#8217;s not the pec fly machine at the gym, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tree-climbing gains popularity as a full-body, outdoor workout: Tree-climbing is emerging as a recreational sport, similar to rock climbing. Local instructor Guy Mott says tree-climbing builds muscles and can lead to improved fitness and weight loss. &#8220;If you engage in a tree climb, it is a full-body workout. It is much more interactive and therapeutic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12824,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12822\/revisions\/12824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}