{"id":617,"date":"2006-08-23T07:07:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T12:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=617"},"modified":"2007-12-03T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T21:27:04","slug":"the-family-that-backpacks-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/08\/23\/the-family-that-backpacks-together\/","title":{"rendered":"The family that backpacks together&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleafchronicle.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060823\/NEWS01\/608230325\/1002\">A correspondent from a small-town paper in Tennessee<\/a> shares  reflections of  family members  who spent five days on the Appalachian Trial in Maryland.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s 6:30 and I am wrapping another layer of duct tape around my feet to keep my blisters and broken skin from rubbing against my boots. By lunchtime, I&#8217;ve already gotten another hot spot, and I have to put more duct tape on my feet. My right hip hurts because of tendinitis and my left knee is stiff because I pulled a tendon the day before. I&#8217;m miserable and wondering how on earth I got myself into this mess. But then I&#8217;m walking in a piece of forest and see a deer in the path, or I stop by a stream with my dad for awhile to enjoy its beauty, and I can&#8217;t help but think, &#8220;God, I really am having the best time. Everything is so beautiful.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their granddad, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailjournals.com\/ModelT\/\">trail name Model T<\/a>,  was in the  White Mountains on the AT at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailjournals.com\/entry.cfm?trailname=3958\">last report. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A correspondent from a small-town paper in Tennessee shares reflections of family members who spent five days on the Appalachian Trial in Maryland. It&#8217;s 6:30 and I am wrapping another layer of duct tape around my feet to keep my&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/08\/23\/the-family-that-backpacks-together\/\">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":[152,107],"tags":[516,512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"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=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}