{"id":524,"date":"2006-06-19T08:49:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=524"},"modified":"2006-06-19T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T13:49:57","slug":"great-eastern-trail-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/19\/great-eastern-trail-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Eastern Trail profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060619\/NEWS0104\/606190384\/1008\/NEWS01\">Louisville Courier Journal profiles a new trail that could provide an alternative to the Appalachian Trail: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Planners hope that eventually it could serve as a foundation of a 10,000-mile network of paths running from south Florida to Maine, from Virginia to North Dakota. With increased development and sprawl along the East Coast, they believe the timing is right.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<P><\/p>\n<p>When finished, the Great Eastern Trail would stretch just west of the Appalachian Trail.<br \/>\nOveruse of that trail has caused litter pileups, trampled plants and crowded campsites, said Alison Bullock, a director with the National Park Service&#8217;s rivers and trails program who is helping plan the new trail.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Volunteers are making this trail happen, which reminds me: if you&#8217;ve got some time on your hands not devoted to essential tasks like blogging,  get out there and build a trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville Courier Journal profiles a new trail that could provide an alternative to the Appalachian Trail: Planners hope that eventually it could serve as a foundation of a 10,000-mile network of paths running from south Florida to Maine, from Virginia&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/19\/great-eastern-trail-profile\/\">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\/524"}],"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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}