{"id":28,"date":"2007-08-13T18:27:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T23:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-07-04T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T03:37:35","slug":"lost-and-not-lost-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Not Lost in the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fran and I were recently day hiking while camping in a remote section of Massachusetts.\u00a0 We had trail maps and GPS.\u00a0\u00a0But the trails were\u00a0not where the lines appeared on our map (this is not uncommon).\u00a0\u00a0 Were we lost?\u00a0\u00a0Fran says\u00a0no.\u00a0 We\u00a0always knew where we were, just the trails were lost.\u00a0\u00a0But there was still the possibility that we might\u00a0be in the woods at dusk.\u00a0\u00a0The wonderful and surprising thing is that\u00a0this did not feel like any problem.\u00a0 We would just bed down for the night where ever we\u00a0might be\u00a0and next morning follow trails leading in the direction of our base camp.\u00a0\u00a0<em> <\/em>I felt quite at peace with the possibility.\u00a0 This experience leads one to consider\u00a0the experiential meaning of\u00a0 such words\/ideas as &#8220;lost&#8221; &#8220;security&#8221; and\u00a0&#8220;home.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>p.s.\u00a0 We got to a recognized trail, and\u00a0our campsite, before dusk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran and I were recently day hiking while camping in a remote section of Massachusetts.\u00a0 We had trail maps and GPS.\u00a0\u00a0But the trails were\u00a0not where the lines appeared on our map (this is not uncommon).\u00a0\u00a0 Were we lost?\u00a0\u00a0Fran says\u00a0no.\u00a0 We\u00a0always knew where we were, just the trails were lost.\u00a0\u00a0But there was still the possibility that [&hellip;]<\/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-28","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\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}