{"id":499,"date":"2012-05-23T17:26:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T22:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:08:16","slug":"atkins-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Atkins, VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5\/23\/12 &#8211; 542 miles<br \/>\nI&#8217;m at a road crossing near Atkins, VA. I needed a motel in the worst way. My laundry had almost two weeks of sweat and grime incrusted in it, I was beginning to smell like a Billy goat, and I&#8217;ve had a head cold and cough that beckoned a rest. The motel is no Holiday Inn but a lot better than tenting in the rain. I will take a zero tomorrow and hopefully heal.<\/p>\n<p>Today as I was blowing a snot rocket I realized how far the crowd I hike with has moved from civility. There may be several hikers preparing a meal at a picnic table and someone has his leg on the table performing surgery on his foot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\/23\/12 &#8211; 542 miles I&#8217;m at a road crossing near Atkins, VA. I needed a motel in the worst way. My laundry had almost two weeks of sweat and grime incrusted in it, I was beginning to smell like a Billy goat, and I&#8217;ve had a head cold and cough that beckoned a rest. The [&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-499","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\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}