{"id":3754,"date":"2024-07-12T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T08:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/i-just-designed-a-destruction-of-a-life\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T08:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T08:59:24","slug":"i-just-designed-a-destruction-of-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/i-just-designed-a-destruction-of-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I just designed a destruction of a life&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia, Ian remembers that his love of climbing started very young, when he was three or four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was a difficult childhood, in that his father who was an alcoholic took his own life when Ian was 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ian and his mum then moved to Texas, where he really started to get into climbing as a teenager. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He climbed competitively, even travelling with the US national team at one point, before dropping out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wanted to be a contender, but I was just not destined to make a living as a professional,&#8221; says Ian. &#8220;I still wanted to be involved in the industry, so I decided to do something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With a background in design and fine art, that something else was making holds for indoor climbing walls. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-50270731?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia, Ian remembers that his love of climbing started very young, when he was three or four. But it was a difficult childhood, in that his father who was an alcoholic took his own life when Ian was 10. Ian and his mum then moved to Texas, where he really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[2779,2780,283],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","tag-designed","tag-destruction","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}