{"id":5591,"date":"2026-05-11T22:23:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:23:49","slug":"alpine-ibex-climbs-a-near-vertical-dam-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/alpine-ibex-climbs-a-near-vertical-dam-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpine Ibex Climbs a Near Vertical Dam Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a YouTube video, I Saw an Alpine Ibex Goat<br>\nclimb a near vertical dam wall in the alps.<\/p>\n<p>As I watched him climb that wall, it was like<br>\nstanding on a building hundreds of feet<\/p>\n<p>above the ground looking down with fear<br>\nin my trembling heart,<\/p>\n<p>afraid that at any moment the Ibex would<br>\nfall off the wall over a hundred feet to<\/p>\n<p>the ground and be crushed to death<br>\nfrom the impact on the rocks below.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, like a human impossibly walking on water,<br>\nthe ibex miraculously scaled the wall.<\/p>\n<p>And it did it with what looked like a supernatural,<br>\nfearless, death-defying  skill. <\/p>\n<p>Hail Alpine Ibex, king of perilous heights! <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a YouTube video, I Saw an Alpine Ibex Goat climb a near vertical dam wall in the alps. As I watched him climb that wall, it was like standing on a building hundreds of feet above the ground looking down with fear in my trembling heart, afraid that at any moment the Ibex would&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/alpine-ibex-climbs-a-near-vertical-dam-wall\/\">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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}