{"id":904,"date":"2007-01-07T07:04:39","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T12:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=904"},"modified":"2007-01-07T07:04:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T12:04:39","slug":"locator-beacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/01\/07\/locator-beacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Locator beacons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.rec.hiking\/browse_frm\/thread\/37d5ab9ff6c06802\">A thread at Google Groups<\/a> mentions a climber at Big Bend National Park summoning rescuers because he was stuck on a rock.<br \/>\n<P>I know the boys at <a href=\"http:\/\/getoutdoors.com\/\">GoBlog<\/a> are opposed to this sort of thing on general principles &#8212; it&#8217;s not exactly manly to call in a rescue unless the need is absolutely dire (in which case  you might be in no condition to summon your next breath, much less a search-and-extraction team).<\/p>\n<p><P>I can see where these locator beacons can be a good thing when hardly anybody uses them, but if like all technologies they get cheap and ubiquitous, do they become the equivalent of the car alarm keeping the neighborhood up all night?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thread at Google Groups mentions a climber at Big Bend National Park summoning rescuers because he was stuck on a rock. I know the boys at GoBlog are opposed to this sort of thing on general principles &#8212; it&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/01\/07\/locator-beacons\/\">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":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"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=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}