{"id":285,"date":"2006-02-03T07:23:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=285"},"modified":"2008-01-28T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T16:36:29","slug":"why-hiking-is-better-than-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/02\/03\/why-hiking-is-better-than-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Why hiking is better than driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailjournals.com\/entry.cfm?id=123640\">Poky<\/a>, a guy planning to hike the Pacific Crest Trail this summer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m struck by the fact that when I was on the trail I was open to all interactions from people, but in traffic I am unhappy with everyone around me or at least annoyed by the crowded conditions. Almost like I&#8217;m suffocating. Maybe that&#8217;s just all the excess carbon dioxide and diesel particles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see what he means. Driving a car is like being in your own little house on wheels. It&#8217;s got doors, windows, a heater.  You feel safe in there, but you&#8217;re also separate.  And going too fast to appreciate the view, except when you&#8217;re stopped, and then all you can think of is moving again.  I&#8217;m something of a car geek &#8212; I gaze longingly at the Porsches and Beemers the people with real jobs drive around here &#8212; but I&#8217;m happy with my Ford Focus because it gets me where I need to be, which most of the time is someplace where cars don&#8217;t go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Poky, a guy planning to hike the Pacific Crest Trail this summer: I&#8217;m struck by the fact that when I was on the trail I was open to all interactions from people, but in traffic I am unhappy with&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/02\/03\/why-hiking-is-better-than-driving\/\">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":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}