{"id":528,"date":"2012-06-09T09:36:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T14:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:07:14","slug":"new-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"New Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6\/6\/12 741 miles<br \/>\nWe all left town at different times. Kleenex left first, a day before the rest of us. She has a mail drop 80 miles north and needed to hurry to get there by Saturday morning. I wanted to walk around town in my new shoes for a while before heading into the woods so I left the next morning.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s odd how you can see so many people in town, but once on the trail, you can walk for hours without seeing anyone. I passed two shelters and finally stopped at the third 18 miles out of town. I thought I might be all alone at the shelter but several hikers showed up later. There was no place level to pitch my tent, and anyway it looked like rain, so I slept in the shelter with four others.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m developing the thruhikers attitude about the preciousness of food. I dropped a piece of granola bar in the dirt, picked it up without a thought, and ate it. The standard joke about thruhikers is: a tourist drops some food on the ground, the thruhikers looks longingly at the food on the ground and asks, &#8220;Are you going to eat that?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6\/6\/12 741 miles We all left town at different times. Kleenex left first, a day before the rest of us. She has a mail drop 80 miles north and needed to hurry to get there by Saturday morning. I wanted to walk around town in my new shoes for a while before heading into 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":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-appalachian-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}