{"id":437,"date":"2012-05-21T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2013-12-26T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T19:59:01","slug":"on-belay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/thought-about\/on-belay\/","title":{"rendered":"On Belay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who are your <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belayer\">belayers<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>When I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outwardbound.org\/\">40 feet in the air on a pole<\/a>, I knew there was a team of four people who had my back. They are my support. They held the ropes to catch me if I fell. They are my belayers.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120521-193404.jpg?resize=500%2C752\" alt=\"\" title=\"In the capable hands of my belayers\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120521-193404.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/20120521-193404.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They are the support network  They allowed me to climb higher and work harder than I could have on my own. I knew, without a doubt, even if I fell they would catch me.<\/p>\n<p>Those four people took away my fear of the task at hand. They took away my doubt because if I failed, they would catch me.<\/p>\n<p>They are my safety net.<\/p>\n<p>Who is your safety net in life? When you climb a little higher or make that leap of faith, who is there to catch you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are your belayers? When I was 40 feet in the air on a pole, I knew there was a team of four people who had my back. They are my support. They held the ropes to catch me if I fell. They are my belayers. They are the support network They allowed me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[105],"tags":[316,317,322,318],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thought-about","tag-belay","tag-climb","tag-team","tag-trust"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}