{"id":2093,"date":"2008-10-06T09:05:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2008-10-06T09:05:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T17:05:19","slug":"is-the-economy-spoiling-your-outdoor-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/10\/06\/is-the-economy-spoiling-your-outdoor-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the economy spoiling your outdoor fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my bad habits on days when I&#8217;m not hiking is watching the gyrations of the stock market. Hey, it&#8217;s very interactive. I suspect after this week there will be lots of people thinking of walking off into the woods, and perhaps never returning.<\/p>\n<p>Hiking is about as cheap as it gets, considering you really don&#8217;t need much more than a pair of comfy shoes, though backpacking, geocaching and other variants can chew through a lot of coin. Then there&#8217;s the issue of long drives to trailheads, which do not mix well with $4 a gallon gas.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious as to how the rest of y&#8217;all are weathering the current econo-turmoil and if it&#8217;s taking any toll on your hiking. Are you seeing more or less people on the trails?<\/p>\n<p>Your contributions welcome, as always.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my bad habits on days when I&#8217;m not hiking is watching the gyrations of the stock market. Hey, it&#8217;s very interactive. I suspect after this week there will be lots of people thinking of walking off into the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/10\/06\/is-the-economy-spoiling-your-outdoor-fun\/\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093"}],"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=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}