{"id":1921,"date":"2008-05-13T05:30:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2008-05-13T05:34:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T13:34:34","slug":"wow-somebody-reads-my-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/05\/13\/wow-somebody-reads-my-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow, somebody reads my column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/2488822605\/\" title=\"Nature center by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3085\/2488822605_4f8acaab1b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"213\" alt=\"Nature center\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>  A heartening e-mail arrived in my Mercury News inbox yesterday: A woman who volunteers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openspace.org\/activities\/david_c_daniels_nc.asp\">David C. Daniels Nature Center <\/a> told me she likes to fill in on Mother&#8217;s Day because it&#8217;s a quiet shift without many visitors. Well, this past Sunday she had over 150 people come through the place, a throng she attributed to my twice-monthly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/tommangan\">column in the Mercury News<\/a>. She asked that I inform the Mid-Peninsula Open Space District folks before I write up another park in the district so the volunteers can be ready (funny, I never heard of any crowds showing up for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/los-trancos-open-space-preserve\/\">earthquake hike<\/a> at Los Trancos).<\/p>\n<p>The last e-mail I got was from a guy in his mid-70s who told me the &#8220;easy&#8221; hike I recommended at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/joseph-d-grant-county-park\/\">Joseph D. Grant County Park <\/a>nearly gave him a heart attack. He forgave me after I explained to him that the little hike to Bass Lake was a piker compared to the 14-miler I did the same day I scouted out that pond (not far from my famed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/10\/rattlesnake-roundup\/\">rattlesnake run-in<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get much feedback, so it&#8217;s nice to see some people paying attention. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heartening e-mail arrived in my Mercury News inbox yesterday: A woman who volunteers at the David C. Daniels Nature Center told me she likes to fill in on Mother&#8217;s Day because it&#8217;s a quiet shift without many visitors. Well,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/05\/13\/wow-somebody-reads-my-column\/\">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":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921"}],"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=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}