{"id":185,"date":"2009-04-26T22:49:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T03:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appalachia.matthewmosher.us\/?p=185"},"modified":"2009-04-26T22:49:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T03:49:48","slug":"trail-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/thoughts\/trail-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Names 536.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trail names are really weird, for me anyway. \u00a0It&#8217;s almost a requirement out here to have one. \u00a0I know a handfull of people who still don&#8217;t, but they are generally quiet or not particularly accident prone (two things that often lead to trail names, the biggest factor being fire). \u00a0A lot of people say its like a way to redefine yourself. \u00a0When you come out here you can be whoever you want to be. \u00a0Which is funny to me because I&#8217;ve worked at a summer school for the past four years that praises itself for being a place that allows students to try on new personas. \u00a0And when I was in middle school I certainly did that, too, and had several nick names like &#8220;Zulu,&#8221; &#8220;Medicine Man,&#8221; and &#8220;Jester.&#8221; \u00a0But&#8230; that was when I was 13, not 19 &#8211; 70. \u00a0I mean, I&#8217;m Matthew now, it&#8217;s my name and I like it. \u00a0I have to agree with a friend of a friend <a href=\"http:\/\/trailjournals.com\/entry.cfm?id=116924\">Jay on this one.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s one reason why I like Bender, it is part of my actual name, my identity, and not a fabrication I am putting on or trying to connect with. \u00a0I also have not lit myself on fire yet, so things could change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trail names are really weird, for me anyway. \u00a0It&#8217;s almost a requirement out here to have one. \u00a0I know a handfull of people who still don&#8217;t, but they are generally quiet or not particularly accident prone (two things that often lead to trail names, the biggest factor being fire). \u00a0A lot of people say its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}