{"id":3509,"date":"2020-12-04T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2020-10-11T23:16:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T03:16:56","slug":"day-786-making-progress-against-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/day-786-making-progress-against-the-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 786: Making progress against the mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 786:<\/p>\n<p>I was able to finish my sidewalk repair yesterday, and today I spent more time chipping away at the big mountain that&#8217;s trying to kill me.<\/p>\n<p>OK to be fair the mountain is not actively trying to kill me. It&#8217;s just passively being landscape that I can&#8217;t climb or run over, which provides all kinds of monsters and murderers (the murderers have been in the neighborhood again) the ability to pin me into a dangerous position and try to kill me.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that they haven&#8217;t succeeded yet doesn&#8217;t mean that I want them to.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m slowly mining it into a gentle slope.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so huge that I predict it&#8217;ll still collect snow when I&#8217;ve cut it down to size, but even if it doesn&#8217;t, my safety is more important than the mountain.<\/p>\n<p>And, as I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I think I&#8217;ve seen every kind of creature that lives here now&#8230; and they don&#8217;t seem to have habitats outside of &#8220;fish like water, sheep like grass, skeletons like trees&#8221;. \u00a0My &#8220;refreshing&#8221; the mountain isn&#8217;t going to impact the local ecology.<\/p>\n<p>But dang it takes a long time to cut down a mountain. I feel like I&#8217;ve been at it for weeks and it&#8217;s still there. With a tree at its peak and everything!<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t even see the progress I&#8217;ve made, really.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day786.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3521\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day786.png?resize=525%2C328&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A view from a nearby hill of the mountain I'm carving down and the river. The mountain has a dent in it like I've sliced off a side with a butter knife.\" width=\"525\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day786.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day786.png?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day786.png?resize=768%2C480&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day786.png?resize=1024%2C640&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/day786.png?w=1575&amp;ssl=1 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 786: I was able to finish my sidewalk repair yesterday, and today I spent more time chipping away at the big mountain that&#8217;s trying to kill me. OK to be fair the mountain is not actively trying to kill me. It&#8217;s just passively being landscape that I can&#8217;t climb or run over, which provides &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/day-786-making-progress-against-the-mountain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 786: Making progress against the mountain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-among-the-dead"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-UB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}