{"id":11734,"date":"2010-03-29T20:54:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/29\/risks-of-desert-hiking\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T20:54:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:54:41","slug":"risks-of-desert-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/29\/risks-of-desert-hiking\/","title":{"rendered":"Risks of Desert Hiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0133ec524118970b-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Goldfields\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0133ec524118970b \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0133ec524118970b-320wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> <font face=\"Georgia\">In a society made litigious by an excess of lawyers, the need for&#0160; various CYA maneuvers is correspondingly great. One such is the disclaimer. I particularly enjoy the disclaimers found in well-written hiking books. Rare is the hiking book that doesn&#39;t have one these days. The following is from local author,Ted Tenny, <strong>Goldfield Mountain Hikes<\/strong>, p.&#0160; 4:<\/p>\n<p><\/font><em><font face=\"Georgia\">The risks of desert hiking include, but are not limited to: heatstroke, heat exhaustion, heat prostration, heat cramps, sunburn, dehydration, flash floods, drowning, freezing, hypothermia, getting lost, getting stranded after dark, falling, tripping, being stung, clawed or bitten by venomous or non-venomous creatures, being scratched or stuck by thorny plants, being struck by lightning, falling rocks, natural or artificial objects falling from the sky, or a comet colliding with the Earth.<br \/><\/font><\/em><br \/><font face=\"Georgia\">Still up for a hike?<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a society made litigious by an excess of lawyers, the need for&#0160; various CYA maneuvers is correspondingly great. One such is the disclaimer. I particularly enjoy the disclaimers found in well-written hiking books. Rare is the hiking book that doesn&#39;t have one these days. The following is from local author,Ted Tenny, Goldfield Mountain Hikes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/29\/risks-of-desert-hiking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Risks of Desert Hiking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking-and-backpacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}