{"id":1231,"date":"2007-05-24T06:37:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T11:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2007-12-03T13:10:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T21:10:38","slug":"rolling-thunder-on-trail-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/24\/rolling-thunder-on-trail-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Thunder on trail conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailjournals.com\/entry.cfm?id=182784\">He says Great Debates powered his hike up the PCT last year. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Big Bear, for example, TG and I hiked an unnecessary four miles because our conversation about The Myth of the Californian Pool Boy meant we missed a turn and took the Cougar Crest Trail by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, if we were doing a long day and found a contentious topic we&#8217;d keep it for the last hour so that the debate would power us up the hills. I&#8217;d never have reached the weather station near Snoqualamie before dark if GoBig hadn&#8217;t expounded his view that people who quit the trail are either dishonest when they start the trail or dishonest about why they left. (He lost that one)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing for interesting contrasts between weather in New Zealand and the U.S. West Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He says Great Debates powered his hike up the PCT last year. In Big Bear, for example, TG and I hiked an unnecessary four miles because our conversation about The Myth of the Californian Pool Boy meant we missed a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/24\/rolling-thunder-on-trail-conversations\/\">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":[153,107],"tags":[150,512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"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=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}