{"id":109073,"date":"2015-10-05T22:38:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T04:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-boy-who-hiked-whitney\/"},"modified":"2015-10-05T22:38:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T04:38:48","slug":"the-boy-who-hiked-whitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/the-boy-who-hiked-whitney\/","title":{"rendered":"The boy who hiked Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c5dd15b6-34fd-4ea6-9f69-2230ab8dd9fc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c5dd15b6-34fd-4ea6-9f69-2230ab8dd9fc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c5dd15b6-34fd-4ea6-9f69-2230ab8dd9fc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c5dd15b6-34fd-4ea6-9f69-2230ab8dd9fc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"803\" height=\"603\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Durango first-grader may have set a new record last week after scaling Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada and contiguous United States.<\/p>\n<p>The California mountain stands at 14,505 feet, which was no problem for 6-year-old Orin Gartner, who topped Whitney\u2019s peak last Saturday in about eight hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re big,\u201d is Orin\u2019s reply to why he likes to climb. When he grows up, the Fort Lewis Elementary student wants to figure out a way he can climb \u201call the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His father, Russ Gartner, said that Orin was 3 when he topped Mount Democrat, a fourteener in the Mosquito Range.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took a long time and we went at his pace, but he walked to the top,\u201d Gartner said. \u201cThen we walked him back down in the backpack while he took a nap.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6-year-old summited in 8 hours, dad says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6328,6313],"tags":[21,950],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-109073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-2-more-sports","category-sports-2","tag-cortez","tag-durango"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109073"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=109073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}