{"id":18544,"date":"2016-07-13T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=18544"},"modified":"2016-07-13T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:34:11","slug":"bearsofbaylor-its-just-fun-to-challenge-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2016\/07\/bearsofbaylor-its-just-fun-to-challenge-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"#BearsOfBaylor &#8212; &#8220;It&#8217;s just fun to challenge myself.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I got into climbing because I had done team sports all my life, and so coming here and being able to climb is much more of an individual challenge than it is a group effort. When I\u2019m over there on the wall, it\u2019s just me knowing my limits, knowing what I can do, and pushing them to see if I can do better. It\u2019s just fun to challenge myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>What advice would you give\u00a0incoming freshmen?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don\u2019t wait around for people just to try something. Like, don\u2019t be scared to just go out there and do something, because if you like it you\u2019re going to naturally make friends who like the same thing. \u2026 There\u2019s never going to be a perfect time; you just have to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18545\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bob-climb-jun16.jpg\" alt=\"#BearsOfBaylor\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bob-climb-jun16.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bob-climb-jun16-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bob-climb-jun16-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Every Baylor Bear has a story; #BearsOfBaylor brings those stories to you, one by one. These stories, these people&#8230; This is our Baylor.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I got into climbing because I had done team sports all my life, and so coming here and being able to climb is much more of an individual challenge than it is a group effort. When I\u2019m over there on the wall, it\u2019s just me knowing my limits, knowing what I can do, and pushing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bearsofbaylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}