{"id":7476,"date":"2015-01-01T12:52:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/01\/first-day-of-the-year-first-hike-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:52:28","slug":"first-day-of-the-year-first-hike-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/01\/first-day-of-the-year-first-hike-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of the Year, First Hike of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c72c0a44970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0966\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c72c0a44970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c72c0a44970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"IMG_0966\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I began the year right with a two-hour ramble right out my front door over the local hills. Very cold temps ramped up the usual saunter to a serious march.&#0160; I always go light: short pants, T-shirt, long-sleeved shirt, bandanna, light cotton gloves.&#0160; Rain that turned to snow overnight gave Superstition Mountain a serious dusting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And I always take a notebook and a pen in case I get a really good idea.&#0160; Haven&#39;t had one yet, but you never know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Walking in the wild, alone, is a pleasure to keep one sound in body and mind. &quot;Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.&quot; (Henry David Thoreau, <a href=\"http:\/\/thoreau.eserver.org\/lifewout.html\" target=\"_self\">Life Without Principle<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Click on image to enlarge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began the year right with a two-hour ramble right out my front door over the local hills. Very cold temps ramped up the usual saunter to a serious march.&#0160; I always go light: short pants, T-shirt, long-sleeved shirt, bandanna, light cotton gloves.&#0160; Rain that turned to snow overnight gave Superstition Mountain a serious dusting. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/01\/first-day-of-the-year-first-hike-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Day of the Year, First Hike of the Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,415,132,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-emerson-thoreau-and-friends","category-hiking-and-backpacking","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476","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=7476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}