{"id":1071,"date":"2007-03-16T07:52:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T12:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2007-03-16T07:52:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T12:52:03","slug":"sleeping-pad-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/03\/16\/sleeping-pad-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping pad basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Backpacker magazine<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backpacker.com\/technique\/dailytips\/0,4466,1927,00.html\"> lists 10 considerations<\/a> before you buy. Among them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Measure your tent. In many tight two-person tents, full-length sleeping pads overlap at the feet, which means you&#8217;re carrying some mattress that you don&#8217;t need. One solution is a mummy-shaped pad; another is Cascade Designs&#8217; Link Rest system (see The Minimalist Bed), which has interlocking dovetail edges for linking several pads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Initially I thought you could just go with the stated measurements of your tent but it seems you&#8217;d be far better off getting it set up and doing a real-world accounting of how much space you&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backpacker magazine lists 10 considerations before you buy. Among them: Measure your tent. In many tight two-person tents, full-length sleeping pads overlap at the feet, which means you&#8217;re carrying some mattress that you don&#8217;t need. One solution is a mummy-shaped&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/03\/16\/sleeping-pad-basics\/\">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":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"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=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}