{"id":1775,"date":"2008-02-24T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T19:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/24\/why-we-hike-version-4134632713\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T19:43:49","slug":"why-we-hike-version-4134632713","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/24\/why-we-hike-version-4134632713\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we hike, Version 413,463,271.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/hikingpics\/discuss\/72157603629221290\/\">The Hiking group at flickr.com weighed the question<\/a>, which I haven&#8217;t revisited in a while so I figured what the heck, why not post a link. <\/p>\n<p>I used to have all the standard reasons &#8212; solitude, exercise, communing with nature, etc. &#8212; though lately it&#8217;s mainly an excuse to blog and drum up ideas for the hiking-column gig at the paper. That gets me out on the trail, but something interesting always happens when I get there. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost like nature can detect when I need to find something previously undiscovered, and it provides. I go places I&#8217;ve been before like Grant Ranch or Mount Madonna and find they have amazing little nooks and crannies I missed on previous hikes, or attractions I find only mainly because I&#8217;m taking a trail for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>At first, the trails taught me how all the stuff in the science books and Discovery Channel shows really worked. Seeing something so totally unlikely that it shouldn&#8217;t even exist &#8212; a banana slug, say,  or a wacked-out mushroom &#8212; is like witnessing evolution in slow motion.  Makes the theoretical seem real. <\/p>\n<p>Lately the trail teaches me how much the woods are like life itself: there&#8217;s always something cool happening around the next bend.  The trick is to be able to appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hiking group at flickr.com weighed the question, which I haven&#8217;t revisited in a while so I figured what the heck, why not post a link. I used to have all the standard reasons &#8212; solitude, exercise, communing with nature,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/02\/24\/why-we-hike-version-4134632713\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[31],"tags":[498],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}