{"id":279,"date":"2008-12-08T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.mikehorn.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-12-08T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T23:00:00","slug":"day-9-trek-to-the-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/day-9-trek-to-the-south-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 9 Trek to the South Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tA frustrating day for Mike as he encountered rough terrain and a very steep hill.<br \/>\n\tHe walked further than other days but unfortunately saw no improvement in the distance he covered due to the fact that he needed to zig-zag as he went up in altitude.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe higher Mike gets the colder it becomes. The snow is becoming more like sandpaper and the sled doesn&#39;t slide as well as it did.<\/p>\n<p>\tMike has now walked 473 kms from the continent edge and has a little less that 1&#39;000 to go until he reaches the pole.<\/p>\n<p>\tMike has sent us though a photo on him lying on a sastrugi. A sastrugi is a mushroom like ice formation caused by the wind.<br \/>\n\tThey can get a high as two metres are can create problems for somebody using a kite as they are very well hidden.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe weather is still good, calm winds and temperatures of around -24&deg;C. Lets hope conditions stay like this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frustrating day for Mike as he encountered rough terrain and a very steep hill. He walked further than other days but unfortunately saw no improvement in the distance he covered due to the fact that he needed to zig-zag as he went up in altitude. The higher Mike gets the colder it becomes. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikehorn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}