{"id":258,"date":"2006-01-20T06:45:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T11:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=258"},"modified":"2008-01-28T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:11:08","slug":"finally-an-interesting-hiker-rescued-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/01\/20\/finally-an-interesting-hiker-rescued-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, an interesting &#8220;hiker rescued&#8221; story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline alone is reason enough to check this one out: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.hamptonroads.com\/stories\/story.cfm?story=98310&#038;ran=15560\">N.Y. detective lost in Dismal Swamp is found<\/p>\n<p><\/a>  <P>Lost in Dimsal Swamp? Rats, that was going to be the title of my memoirs.  This part is great: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DiPaola went into the swamp at the Jericho Ditch Road entrance about noon, leaving his late-model Ford with New York tags in the parking lot.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAt 11:30 Wednesday night, DiPaola made a cell phone call to emergency services that was picked up by the Chesapeake Police Department. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Talk about a guy&#8217;s guy: In the swamp six hours after sunset before he calls for directions.  I wonder how many times he said to himself: &#8220;I&#8217;m a detective, dammit, I can find my way out of here.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>All snark aside, getting lost in a bog in January &#8212; and spending the night, no less &#8212; can be genuinely life-threatening, particularly if you&#8217;re unprepared.  A good reason to have your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/online\/store\/ProductDisplay?storeId=8000&#038;catalogId=40000008000&#038;productId=3369&#038;parent_category_rn=4500523\">Tacoma Mountain Rescue Survival Kit stowed<\/a> in your pack. It&#8217;s heavy but it&#8217;ll keep the bog from killing you.  Also, those little LED lights that go on a key ring can help rescuers find you in the dark. Just don&#8217;t run the battery down trying to get unlost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline alone is reason enough to check this one out: N.Y. detective lost in Dismal Swamp is found Lost in Dimsal Swamp? Rats, that was going to be the title of my memoirs. This part is great: DiPaola went&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/01\/20\/finally-an-interesting-hiker-rescued-story\/\">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":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}