{"id":23699,"date":"2016-12-28T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23699"},"modified":"2016-12-28T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T23:28:07","slug":"tall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/tall\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Tall in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/betalsho.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you want to be when you grow up?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I was young\u00a0I&#8217;d answer, &#8220;If I could grow tall enough, I&#8217;d like to be a San Francisco Warrior basketball player.&#8221; \u00a0Although I never played for the Warriors, I did manage to play college basketball with a\u00a0 6&#8217;10&#8221; guy who became the NBA&#8217;s first slam dunk champion.<\/p>\n<p>Being tall is not all it&#8217;s cut out to be. There&#8217;s the awkward process of getting there. An old joke about someone who is so uncoordinated he can&#8217;t walk and chew gum at the same time, fit me like a &#8220;T&#8221; in high school when I shot up 8 inches from 5&#8217;6&#8243; to 6&#8217;2&#8243; in a year. I ended up growing a few more inches after that.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/health\/tall.html\">Read about being tall&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The tallest man,\u00a0Robert Pershing Wadlow from\u00a0Alton, Illinois in 1940\u00a0stood \u00a08\u00a0ft\u00a011.1 in<\/li>\n<li>Tallest woman\u00a0=\u00a08 ft 1.75 in<\/li>\n<li>Shortest man = 21.5 inches<\/li>\n<li>Shortest woman = 24.7&#8243;<\/li>\n<li>Average American: man = 5 ft 9.5 in | woman = 5 ft 3.75 in<\/li>\n<li>California King bed = 84&#8243; or 7 feet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald &#8220;What do you want to be when you grow up?&#8221; When I was young\u00a0I&#8217;d answer, &#8220;If I could grow tall enough, I&#8217;d like to be a San Francisco Warrior basketball player.&#8221; \u00a0Although I never played for the Warriors, I did manage to play college basketball with a\u00a0 6&#8217;10&#8221; guy who became the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}