{"id":919,"date":"2007-01-10T07:32:01","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T12:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=919"},"modified":"2007-12-03T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T21:13:55","slug":"ruined-by-the-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/01\/10\/ruined-by-the-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruined by the PCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like only yesterday I posted a note about PCT Class o 2006 veteran Haiku; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailjournals.com\/entry.cfm?id=164901\">last night I found this at Trail Journals from Treehugger,<\/a> who hiked with Haiku for 2000 miles last summer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am happier than I have ever been. I am more laid back. I am more patient. I am more spontaneous. I am way more confident. I am not as afraid to do things that might make me vulnerable or look stupid. And I know all this because&#8211;well, I feel it&#8211;and because people who know me well are telling me they are noticing it about me. I knew it would be a life-changing experience, but I had no idea that it would change every cell in my body.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;I am ruined.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds dramatic. But I am. My motivation to work in a real job and have nice things&#8211;gone. I had 3 retirement funds I was contributing to regularly and plans to go to grad school very soon. I think about the trail (by this, I mean trail life; any long trail) at least once a minute.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her solution? Join Haiku this summer on the Continental Divide Trail.  If that don&#8217;t get it out of her system, well, there&#8217;s always walking coast to coast. And the Great Wall ain&#8217;t going anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like only yesterday I posted a note about PCT Class o 2006 veteran Haiku; last night I found this at Trail Journals from Treehugger, who hiked with Haiku for 2000 miles last summer: I am happier than I have&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/01\/10\/ruined-by-the-pct\/\">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":[153,107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}