{"id":406,"date":"2006-04-12T07:25:52","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T12:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=406"},"modified":"2006-04-12T07:25:52","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T12:25:52","slug":"at-dispatch-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/04\/12\/at-dispatch-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"AT dispatch of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailjournals.com\/entry.cfm?id=130379\"><strong>Overflow, at 363.8 miles in: <\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was only planning on walking 18 miles today, but Chestnut convinced me to do 21 so that I would have my first day over 20. He said that it gets easier after you&#8217;ve done it about three times. It started well &#8211; my legs and feet felt really good after my nearo and the distance wasn&#8217;t mentally bogging me down. Robert had bought me some jelly beans, which he had been told would help boost your energy when going long distances, so I ate a handful of these whenever I started to feel low. It really worked!<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe hike itself was pretty uneventful, but I never got bored. I saw a skunk and a deer. I tried listening to my headphones but the battery died. I walked and walked. At about 19 miles I really started to get tired, and when I pulled into the shelter an hour later I was so exhausted I was clumsy. Jaywalker was there and he watched my clumsy legs fail me as I tried to step up into the shelter &#8211; it was my first fall in a shelter. I got water from a spring that seemed miles away, rewarded myself with Mountain House spaghetti and went to bed, way too exhausted to write very much. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now we know why Ronald Reagan was all about the jellybeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overflow, at 363.8 miles in: I was only planning on walking 18 miles today, but Chestnut convinced me to do 21 so that I would have my first day over 20. He said that it gets easier after you&#8217;ve done&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/04\/12\/at-dispatch-of-the-day\/\">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":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}