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I have mountain climbing gear mounted from my ceiling! I haven’t tried rappelling yet but I have hung my first kayak. Hasn’t given out yet, hopeful…<\/p>\n

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Update: I got my living room back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have mountain climbing gear mounted from my ceiling! I haven’t tried rappelling yet but I have hung my first kayak. Hasn’t given out yet, hopeful… Update: I got my living room back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,152,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-diy","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-Kc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2002\/still-recovering\/","url_meta":{"origin":2864,"position":0},"title":"I made the kayaking plunge!","author":"m","date":"July 28, 2002","format":false,"excerpt":"The first item on the agenda was learning how to unwrap myself from my kayak, or as the pro's simply call it, to \"swim\". 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