{"id":1028,"date":"2007-02-26T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T14:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2007-12-03T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T21:21:06","slug":"another-thru-hiker-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/02\/26\/another-thru-hiker-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Another thru-hiker fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/mld\/beaconjournal\/16785878.htm\">From a recent Akron Beacon-Journal report: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Josh Wengerd is taking steps &#8212; millions of them, in fact &#8212; to raise awareness about a Stark County group that helps people who can&#8217;t afford their prescription medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Starting next month, the 23-year-old Hartville native plans to spend six months hiking the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, a 2,175-mile path from Georgia to Maine.<\/p>\n<p>As he traverses mountains and valleys through 14 states with only a backpack and walking sticks, supporters of the Stark Prescription Assistance Network (SPAN) will use Wengerd&#8217;s journey to raise money and educate the public about the group&#8217;s efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I&#8217;m going to take six months of my life and go walk, it&#8217;s definitely a good idea if I can do something good with it and help others,&#8221; Wengerd said. &#8220;There is a need for it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think everybody who thru-hikes ought to consider a fund-raising component &#8212;  not just because it&#8217;s a good thing to do, but so they can have a reply for the standard &#8220;what the hell?&#8221; questions from the unwashed (well, washed, actually) masses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent Akron Beacon-Journal report: Josh Wengerd is taking steps &#8212; millions of them, in fact &#8212; to raise awareness about a Stark County group that helps people who can&#8217;t afford their prescription medicines. Starting next month, the 23-year-old&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/02\/26\/another-thru-hiker-fundraiser\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[152,107],"tags":[516,512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}