{"id":82,"date":"2005-11-02T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-01-28T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T17:17:03","slug":"dont-look-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/11\/02\/dont-look-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t look down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailforums.com\/detail.cfm?PostNum=5719\">interesting thread on fear of heights<\/a> at TrailForums.   One extract: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I had a hiking accident in November 2003, falling down a very steep section of trail on the AT in the Whites while solo hiking. I spent two days lying there by myself until I was able to hike 10 miles to safety. I had 7 fractured ribs and a hemothorax, spent a week in the hospital. The following summer I hiked 1170 miles of the AT, but ended up leaving the trail because I was getting retraumatized and becoming increasingly afraid that I&#8217;d fall again. &#8230; I think that dealing with the aftermath of trauma is very complicated and not as simple as &#8220;just do it&#8221; and get back on the trail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t say hiking has cured my fear of heights, but I don&#8217;t seem to get freaked out by steep sections of trail. I&#8217;ve gotten to places where I&#8217;ve simply turned back because it looked too dangerous, but it wasn&#8217;t fear of heights that bothered me. It was fear of falling, or, more precisely, a hard landing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting thread on fear of heights at TrailForums. One extract: I had a hiking accident in November 2003, falling down a very steep section of trail on the AT in the Whites while solo hiking. I spent two&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2005\/11\/02\/dont-look-down\/\">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":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}