{"id":56,"date":"2005-10-29T08:49:39","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=56"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T17:02:22","slug":"gettin-religion-on-the-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/10\/29\/gettin-religion-on-the-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Gettin&#8217; religion on the trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how they say there are no atheists in foxholes? Here&#8217;s a corollary from a story about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cushingdaily.com\/cnhi\/cushingdaily\/features\/cnhinsfaith_story_301133728.html?keyword=topstory\">guy who hiked the full length of the Appalacian Trail:<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Townsend said he nearly lost his life the first day in the wilderness, when he tried to cross a fast-moving stream.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;It had been raining a couple of days and the stream I needed to cross turned into this raging river. I was by myself and started to cross it,&#8221; he said. He was halfway when the current ripped his trekking poles from his hands and he was swept under, his back pack holding him down.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;I finally popped to the top and grabbed a rock. I saw I was about 10-15 feet from the bank so I threw my pack over to it and it stuck. I dove for it and was able to hold on and pull myself out,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I came to get a grip and get closer to God,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That 5-10 minutes in the river changed me.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a theory about the wilderness, which goes like this: the wilderness wants me dead and out of its way;  fortunately, the wilderness has few options for acting on this desire, and the only way it gets what it wants is if I do something stupid to help it out.  Being a bit paranoid is helpful in the wild, because even though it is not <i>really<\/i> out to get you, it can seem to be at the precise moment you stop paying attention to what you&#8217;re doing out there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how they say there are no atheists in foxholes? Here&#8217;s a corollary from a story about a guy who hiked the full length of the Appalacian Trail: Townsend said he nearly lost his life the first day in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/10\/29\/gettin-religion-on-the-trail\/\">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\/56"}],"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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}