{"id":5194,"date":"2011-02-11T06:08:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T13:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2011-02-11T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T06:18:13","slug":"emotionally-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/emotionally-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Feelings, do they make you soft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading \/ researching \/ browsing \/ linking \/ searching and internet surfing on random waterfalls and kayaking expeditions throughout the world &#8211; I stumbled upon this <a href=\"http:\/\/outsideonline.com\/adventure\/travel-ga-201103-kayaker-hendrik-coetzee-sidwcmdev_154236.html\" target=\"_blank\">Outside Magazine<\/a> article about the life of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hendrik_Coetzee\">Hendrik Coetzee<\/a> and his unfortunate death on the river.<\/p>\n<p>It is a very inspiring story and kicked me into an emotional adventure thinking about how small life really is and how important it is to live yours.  Because If you don&#8217;t live your life &#8211; then somebody else will&#8230; and Henri Coetzee, &#8220;the great white explorer&#8221;, was that somebody.  <\/p>\n<p>I feel privileged to take the time to learn something amazing about the passions of a complete stranger.  I have some friends up above that I know you are hanging out with Henri.  Your <a href=\"http:\/\/greatwhiteexplorer.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">last writing<\/a> is chilling to consume, and will not go unnoticed for you shall never &#8220;live a better day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Why, within human nature&#8230; does it take something to end, like death &#8211; for others to begin caring?  <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/outsideonline.com\/adventure\/travel-ga-201103-kayaker-hendrik-coetzee-sidwcmdev_154236.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amazing Story<\/a>]<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/40764193\/ns\/today-today_people\/\" target=\"_blank\">Today Show<\/a>] <\u2014 Horrible interview but good recap\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/greatwhiteexplorer.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Great White Explorer<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading \/ researching \/ browsing \/ linking \/ searching and internet surfing on random waterfalls and kayaking expeditions throughout the world &#8211; I stumbled upon this Outside Magazine article about the life of Hendrik Coetzee and his unfortunate death &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/emotionally-moving\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[618,24,26,969,3,37],"tags":[515,1368,1359,1367],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oCe7-1lM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5197,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/5197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}