{"id":423,"date":"2010-09-15T13:42:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=423"},"modified":"2012-12-18T15:38:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T22:38:26","slug":"tower-climber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Tower climber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid out in rural Indiana, we didn&#8217;t have cable.\u00a0 We also didn&#8217;t do the satellite thing &#8211; so we only had over-the-air TV.\u00a0 Well, you also need a pretty good sized, and tall, antenna to get a decent set of stations.\u00a0 I still remember putting up our antenna tower.\u00a0 It was probably about 50-75ft tall and assembled in 3 sections bolted together.<\/p>\n<p>I remember my brothers and I taking climbing excursions up the tower, to test your bravery and see how high you&#8217;d get.\u00a0 Back in the day, I actually wrote up the idea for a game called &#8216;Tower Climber&#8217; based on this.\u00a0 Back in real life, I was small as a kid and could climb inside the tower until the 3rd and final section.\u00a0 But once you got to that third section, you had to go outside the box and climb outside.\u00a0 The tower would also start jiggling more and since the sections tapered inward, your hand-holds also got narrower.\u00a0 I never made it all the way to the top but got within 2-3 feet at my best &#8211; though 2 of my brothers did (though at least one *smartly* used a climbing rope around the tower).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, when I saw this, it brought it all came back&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #090909; width: 440px;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#090909\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.vidivodo.com\/VideoPlayerShare.swf?u=BFFFS1hAURI=\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #090909; padding: 5px; color: #cccccc; font: 11px Verdana;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vidivodo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vidivodo.com<\/a> : <a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" title=\"stair way to heaven - climbing tower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vidivodo.com\/419768\/stair-way-to-heaven-_-climbing-tower\" target=\"_blank\">stair way to heaven &#8211; climbing tower<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Etiket: <a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" title=\"amateur\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vidivodo.com\/video-etiketler\/amateur\" target=\"_blank\">amateur<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid out in rural Indiana, we didn&#8217;t have cable.\u00a0 We also didn&#8217;t do the satellite thing &#8211; so we only had over-the-air TV.\u00a0 Well, you also need a pretty good sized, and tall, antenna to get a decent set of stations.\u00a0 I still remember putting up our antenna tower.\u00a0 It was probably about 50-75ft tall and assembled in 3 sections bolted together. 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