{"id":478,"date":"2012-05-19T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T13:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:08:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:08:36","slug":"shin-splints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Shin Splints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5\/7\/12 &#8211; 374 miles<br \/>\nI left camp early in the morning. I like to walk by myself for a while when the woods are just waking up, the air is cool, and I&#8217;m fresh with a good nights rest. I walked for about an hour at a slow pace and then Chicken Feathers caught me and we hiked together for the rest of the day.  Shortly before midday, we decided to detour .6 miles to a hostel in hopes of a Burger or other type of greasy food. When we got there the owner was just getting ready to give her dog a bath so she couldn&#8217;t be bothered with us. We had a soft drink and headed back to the trail, vowing to tell everyone we met what a waste of time the Greasy Creek Hostel is.<\/p>\n<p>On the way to our campsite at Ash Gap, I started to develop a sore shin. It would turn into one of the most painful ordeals I&#8217;ve ever undergone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\/7\/12 &#8211; 374 miles I left camp early in the morning. I like to walk by myself for a while when the woods are just waking up, the air is cool, and I&#8217;m fresh with a good nights rest. I walked for about an hour at a slow pace and then Chicken Feathers caught me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appalachian-trail","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}