{"id":550,"date":"2006-07-06T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T13:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=550"},"modified":"2006-07-06T08:28:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T13:28:56","slug":"our-trails-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/07\/06\/our-trails-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Our trails, ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/opinion\/2003104823_trails05.html\">From a Seattle Times column on how budget cuts are drastically reducing the works of national parks and forests. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A typical hiking trail costs, on average, about $1,000 per mile to maintain. Leave it neglected until it has eroded and is in need of serious reconstruction and you can plan on spending upwards of $50,000 per mile to repair the trail. Our failure to act today only compounds itself over time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another way of saying if you want your trails maintained, you&#8217;re apt to end up doing it yourself. (Hey, it&#8217;s great exercise.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Seattle Times column on how budget cuts are drastically reducing the works of national parks and forests. A typical hiking trail costs, on average, about $1,000 per mile to maintain. Leave it neglected until it has eroded and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/07\/06\/our-trails-ourselves\/\">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\/550"}],"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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}