{"id":27,"date":"2007-07-21T16:36:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T21:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2011-05-16T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T23:23:37","slug":"visiting-the-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Immersed in the Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fran and I are backpackers, and we recently\u00a0took a three-day hike\u00a0in\u00a0a wilderness area of western Pennsylvania.\u00a0 It is an interesting experience to feel so totally immersed in nature — this is a particularly remote area.\u00a0 It’s something I’m pondering.\u00a0 This is a shared earth, the bears and snakes are part of it\u00a0and, fortunately, not my enemies.\u00a0 It can feel scary and\u00a0 exciting, and yet right, natural, and appropriate, to experience these\u00a0animals in their natural habitat.\u00a0 We are so used to seeing these animals only in zoos, it’s something to realize that they really live (and can thrive) in nature.\u00a0 We got lost in the woods twice, but had all we needed to survive on our backs, so what’s the worry?\u00a0 We are a part of this natural world, and need to remember that and accept it.<\/p>\n

A full acount\u00a0of this backpacking trip\u00a0on the Donut Hole Trail is available at www.blog.peacefulways.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fran and I are backpackers, and we recently\u00a0took a three-day hike\u00a0in\u00a0a wilderness area of western Pennsylvania.\u00a0 It is an interesting experience to feel so totally immersed in nature — this is a particularly remote area.\u00a0 It’s something I’m pondering.\u00a0 This is a shared earth, the bears and snakes are part of it\u00a0and, fortunately, not my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace-with-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}