{"id":12078,"date":"2014-09-23T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2014-09-14T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:08:08","slug":"from-the-augustseptember-zephyr-andy-lewis-vs-the-united-states-of-americaby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/from-the-augustseptember-zephyr-andy-lewis-vs-the-united-states-of-americaby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the August\/September Zephyr) ANDY LEWIS vs THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Andy Lewis likes \u201cto rage.\u201d It\u2019s how he makes his living and why he gets up in the morning. He rages without apology or condition. Raging is what \u201cSketchy Andy,\u201d his nom de guerre, claims is the essence of Life itself. He is a self-taught aerobatic daredevil. He is a BASE jumper, a rock climber, he is the master of the \u2018Slackline.\u2019 The \u2018Highline.\u2019 Just last week Lewis claims to have set a new world slacklining record, traversing 554 feet on cord almost 600 feet high, between two skyscrapers in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His Wikipedia page designates him a \u201cPerformer.\u201d That characterization cuts closest to the mark. He is an extraordinary athlete, with un-earthly skills and has managed to combine that natural talent with an outrageous, belligerent, defiant, sometimes offensive personality to create a persona all his own. He has marketed that image brilliantly and successfully, and has created his own cult of personality. Sketchy Andy is adored, even worshiped, by his followers. Indeed, he is \u2018followed\u2019 by 6000 disciples on his publicly accessible facebook page. He makes a living via his sponsors, corporate and otherwise, and the venues that hire him and his high altitude stunts to draw the big crowds around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/andy-lewis-vs-the-united-states-of-america-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-12079\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/andy-courtpic.jpg\" alt=\"andy-courtpic\" width=\"529\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/andy-courtpic.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/andy-courtpic-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/andy-lewis-vs-the-united-states-of-america-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2014\/08\/03\/andy-lewis-vs-the-united-states-of-america-by-jim-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: Andy Lewis likes \u201cto rage.\u201d It\u2019s how he makes his living and why he gets up in the morning. He rages without apology or condition. Raging is what \u201cSketchy Andy,\u201d his nom de guerre, claims is the essence of Life itself. He is a self-taught aerobatic daredevil. He is a BASE jumper, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12080,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions\/12080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}