{"id":4465,"date":"2020-10-12T20:35:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T00:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2020-10-13T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T13:23:52","slug":"return-of-the-dmbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4465","title":{"rendered":"Return of The DMBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, some friends and I hiked up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhstateparks.org\/visit\/state-parks\/monadnock-state-park\">Mt. Monadnock<\/a> in southern New Hampshire. It was a gorgeous Fall day and the mountain was a wonderful vantage from which to enjoy the foliage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4469\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201011_144659-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201011_144659-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201011_144659-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201011_144659-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201011_144659-1536x982.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201011_144659-2048x1309.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we chatted on the socially-distanced hike up, we were astonished that the last time we climbed Monadnock was five years ago. At that time, we founded the Dirty Mountain Bastard (DMB) hiking club. And while we had all hiked somewhere and sometime in the intervening years, we were astonished to realize it had been half-a-decade since the DMBs had all assembled for the first time on that mountainside. The Dirty Mountain Bastards are Robert Christian, Denis Fleming, Dax Bayerd-Murray, and myself.<\/p>\n<p>Much has changed in the world in those five-years. And, it is with a grateful heart that I can appreciate all the Dirty Mountain Bastards are still around and healthy enough to go for a hike!<\/p>\n<p>Onward DMBs!!!<\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2020 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, some friends and I hiked up Mt. Monadnock in southern New Hampshire. It was a gorgeous Fall day and the mountain was a wonderful vantage from which to enjoy the foliage. As we chatted on the socially-distanced hike up, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=4465\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4480,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions\/4480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}