{"id":427990,"date":"2026-01-25T00:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427990\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T00:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:15:12","slug":"alex-honnolds-taipei-101-free-solo-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/427990\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Honnold&#8217;s Taipei 101 free solo climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clock is ticking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>08:00 local time (GMT +8)<\/p>\n<p>Maths has never been my strong point, along with a lot of other subjects at school, but I make it that it&#8217;s just an hour to go until Honnold is due to start his epic climb&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look on the bright side<\/p>\n<p>07:30 local time (GMT +8)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s looking a lot sunnier than yesterday morning in Taipei, when Honnold&#8217;s attempt was understandably postponed for safety reasons. I wouldn&#8217;t fancy going up a kids&#8217; playground slide in the wet, let alone a skyscraper. It&#8217;s now not meant to rain until Tuesday so here&#8217;s hoping&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Will it be rainy or sunny for Honnold\u2019s attempt?<\/p>\n<p>07:00 local time (GMT +8)<\/p>\n<p>The weather forecast says there&#8217;s only a 20 per cent chance of rain in Taipei when\u00a0Honnold is due to start his climb. Currently, it&#8217;s looking very promising. Fingers and toes are crossed at this point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Honnold\u2019s climb postponed due to weather<\/p>\n<p>Saturday &#8211; 08:45 local time (GMT +8)<\/p>\n<p>It seems the weather didn\u2019t get the memo about\u00a0Honnold\u2019s attempt going down today, as rainy conditions force the postponement of the attempt to Sunday, 25 January at 09:00 (local time).<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Netflix reads: \u201cSafety remains our top priority, and we appreciate your understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clock is ticking&#8230; 08:00 local time (GMT +8) Maths has never been my strong point, along with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-427990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}