{"id":516,"date":"2006-06-14T07:46:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T12:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=516"},"modified":"2006-06-14T07:46:04","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T12:46:04","slug":"five-best-things-about-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/14\/five-best-things-about-hiking\/","title":{"rendered":"Five best things about hiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteblaze.net\/forum\/showthread.php?p=209782#post209782\">The Whiteblaze folks count &#8217;em out. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>That thread has all the main  ones covered &#8212; serenity, solitude, scenery, fellowship, communing w\/nature, etc.  &#8212;  but here are a few others that spring to mind:<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n1) <strong>Learning by direct experience. <\/strong> Like, for instance, feeling the temperature difference when you hike above the cloud layer. You may have been told in school that air forms in layers,  but it&#8217;s so much cooler to feel the effect with your own nervous system.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n2) <strong>New sensations<\/strong>. Like having your hair stand on end when lightning strikes nearby.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n3) <strong>Getting scared, and getting over it. <\/strong>  Like  having a jogger come up from behind you and scare you witless because you thought you were out there all alone.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n4) <strong>Singularity. <\/strong> Usually happens when looking down on civilization from the trail. It&#8217;s the realization that of all those people down there who could be doing this, I&#8217;m the only one doing it right here, right now.<br \/>\n<P>5) <strong>Learning from mistakes. <\/strong>I draw far more insight from wrong turns than I ever will from having things go as planned.<br \/>\n<P>Well, that&#8217;s five for me.  Additions are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whiteblaze folks count &#8217;em out. That thread has all the main ones covered &#8212; serenity, solitude, scenery, fellowship, communing w\/nature, etc. &#8212; but here are a few others that spring to mind: 1) Learning by direct experience. Like, for&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/14\/five-best-things-about-hiking\/\">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},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"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=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}