{"id":344,"date":"2011-06-23T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appalachia.matthewmosher.us\/?p=344"},"modified":"2011-06-23T19:00:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:00:25","slug":"boiling-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/aftermath\/boiling-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Boiling Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those monster blister?  Well, they won.  I did not get nearly as far as I wanted this run on the AT, just made it to the mid-atlantic regional office, about 100 miles.  Combined with the dirt, sweat, and mosquitoes made for a pretty miserable time, and I got off the trail early.  It is a wonderfully easy and historic (civil war) part of the trail, though.  <\/p>\n<p>I think it will be a long time before I consider making another attempt.  Better motivation is key, and I think I&#8217;d want to do the remaining 1100 miles in one go.  I&#8217;m all for camping, but hiking multiple days without bathing isn&#8217;t so appealing anymore.<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m heading back to DC to see my sister again.  Still a rainy summer on the east coast.<\/p>\n<p>With a mighty thanks to my mom for the warm up slack packing, and a renewed appreciation for showers, adieu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.org\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1529.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.org\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1529-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1529\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1529-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1529-764x1024.jpg 764w, http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1529.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those monster blister? Well, they won. I did not get nearly as far as I wanted this run on the AT, just made it to the mid-atlantic regional office, about 100 miles. Combined with the dirt, sweat, and mosquitoes made for a pretty miserable time, and I got off the trail early. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aftermath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}