{"id":756,"date":"2012-10-13T19:05:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T00:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2013-07-07T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T20:04:05","slug":"random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

I lost 40 pounds, three toenails, and I guess you could say, six months of my life.<\/p>\n

I still walk like a baby deer when I first get up. <\/p>\n

My foot still hurts and so does my knee.<\/p>\n

The bottoms of my feet are numb and my digestive system seems to be all out of whack. <\/p>\n

No matter how much sleep I get, I still feel tired much of the day.<\/p>\n

My favorite shoes – even when I go to the store – are my crocs. <\/p>\n

In the store I actually passed up a tube of toothpaste because it was too heavy.<\/p>\n

I still crave fluff-a-nutter sandwiches and Snicker bars, but I can’t stand the thought of raman noodles or tuna. <\/p>\n

I don’t wear anything synthetic, preferring instead the soft feel of cotton. <\/p>\n

If you watched me walk across the parking lot you would wonder how in the world I walked 2,184 miles.<\/p>\n

With all the pain, all the trouble, and all the suffering, I wouldn’t trade my hike on the AT for anything. It was the greatest and best thing I have ever done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I lost 40 pounds, three toenails, and I guess you could say, six months of my life. I still walk like a baby deer when I first get up. My foot still hurts and so does my knee. The bottoms of my feet are numb and my digestive system seems to be all out of […]<\/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-756","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\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}