{"id":2096,"date":"2010-08-02T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2010-08-02T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:45:19","slug":"dieter-dengler-champion-survivalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/dieter-dengler-champion-survivalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Dieter Dengler, champion survivalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dieter_Dengler\" target=\"_blank\">Dieter Dengler<\/a>, the subject of two Werner Herzog films, the documentary <i>Little Dieter Needs to Fly<\/i> and the Christian Bale-starring drama, <i>Rescue Dawn<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p><i>Investors Business Daily<\/i> (of all places) has a brief bio that reveals how Dengler&#8217;s incredible feats (he escaped from a POW camp in Laos and survived 23 days in a hostile jungle  while suffering a host of debilitating diseases) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=541537\" target=\"_blank\">can be traced to skills<\/a> and personality traits he developed early in childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about the things you learn at your mother&#8217;s knee &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard of Dieter Dengler, the subject of two Werner Herzog films, the documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly and the Christian Bale-starring drama, Rescue Dawn. Investors Business Daily (of all places) has a brief bio that reveals how Dengler&#8217;s incredible feats (he escaped from a POW camp in Laos and survived 23 days in a hostile jungle while suffering a host of debilitating diseases) can be traced to skills and personality traits he developed early in childhood. Talk about the things you learn at your mother&#8217;s knee &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-and-spirit","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}