{"id":505,"date":"2012-05-27T20:05:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T01:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:08:16","slug":"evening-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Evening Hiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5\/27\/12 &#8211; 597 miles<br \/>\nI slept in this morning. It was 8 am before I started hiking.  The bad thing about being the first one on the trail in the morning is all the spider webs. It&#8217;s really annoying to get plastered across the face with sticky invisible threads every few yards so I usually carry a stick in front of me as a blockade. After a while I get tired of holding the stick and use the swinging treking pole method. I try to guess where I would build a web if I were a spider and swing my pole in those areas. Unfortunately, the spider and I disagree on good spots and I will catch many more webs across my face.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m camped high on a mountain all alone tonight. I watched the sun set on a beautiful evening.  The afternoon was quite warm so I rested at a shelter talking with an Australian couple hiking the trail for their honeymoon. When it cooled off I hiked a few more mile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\/27\/12 &#8211; 597 miles I slept in this morning. It was 8 am before I started hiking. The bad thing about being the first one on the trail in the morning is all the spider webs. It&#8217;s really annoying to get plastered across the face with sticky invisible threads every few yards so I usually [&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-505","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\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}