{"id":220,"date":"2017-02-12T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T15:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martynstrailnotes.wordpress.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2021-12-29T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T15:49:16","slug":"first-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/12\/first-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"To Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people who hear about our hike ask a range of similar questions. What is 2,650 miles in km? &nbsp;With an organised group, though, surely? &nbsp;How long will that take? &nbsp;How far is that per day?<\/p>\n<p>The most common by far is whether I&#8217;ll write some sort of blog, post photos, keep in touch. My answer has always been yes, I&#8217;m <i>going to <\/i>do one of those things. In the future. Honest.<\/p>\n<p>You see I&#8217;ve always liked the<i>&nbsp;idea <\/i>of keeping a blog about the trails and travels that have characterised life since leaving Australia. So it is a very easy question to answer with a yes. But in the past I&#8217;ve never really made it beyond the first entry or two. My poor family make do with a photo every few months, an email once a year or there abouts.<\/p>\n<p>So, having determined to walk 4,250 km, alone (but for Sam of course) and unsupported, in a tent, doing 20 mile days for five months it seems only fair that I should quickly evolve into a better correspondent. Here shall follow my efforts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/martynstrailnotes.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/wp-image-1490606893jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16 alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/martynstrailnotes.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/wp-image-1490606893jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2664\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having determined to walk from Mexico to Canada it seemed only fair that I should quickly evolve into a better correspondent. Here shall follow my efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post","tag-appalachian-trail","eq-blocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msvanlife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}