{"id":96,"date":"2009-02-13T20:15:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T01:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appalachia.matthewmosher.us\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-02-13T20:15:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T01:15:18","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/intent\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the question I get most when I tell people that I am hiking the Appalachian Trail. \u00a0Why? \u00a0It&#8217;s a valid question. \u00a0Hiking the trail is a huge commitment, it takes great resources; in money, but more so in time. \u00a0It also takes huge losses. \u00a0While I am hiking I will be largely alone, and vary far from my friends and family. \u00a0I have already lost loved ones because of my decision to take these months to hike the trail. \u00a0When I tell people I taking this walk, and after they ask why, I am usually met with a very concerned look. \u00a0Of all the people I have talked to, I have had but one friend smile and say &#8220;wow, that&#8217;s great, I know you&#8217;ll finish it.&#8221; \u00a0One. \u00a0So I&#8217;m embarking on this huge quest with hardly any support; naturally I must have very good reasons for the why. \u00a0I hope in the next few days to give some of my initial reasons for my intent and timing of this hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the question I get most when I tell people that I am hiking the Appalachian Trail. \u00a0Why? \u00a0It&#8217;s a valid question. \u00a0Hiking the trail is a huge commitment, it takes great resources; in money, but more so in time. \u00a0It also takes huge losses. \u00a0While I am hiking I will be largely alone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,31,47,52],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intent","tag-concern","tag-loss","tag-support","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}