{"id":2571,"date":"2019-06-19T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2019-06-19T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:04:14","slug":"trail-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/06\/19\/trail-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is customary for long distance hikers to be given a trail name.We have met &#8216;Socks&#8217;, &#8216;Pockets&#8217;, &#8216;Semper Gumby&#8217; (always flexible), &#8216;Crunchmaster&#8217; (crunches the miles and once managed 52 miles in one day), &#8216;Smiles&#8217; who hikes with him, &#8216;Rockstar&#8217;, &#8216;Hot Ham&#8217; (carried ham into a hot desert section and ate it and lived to acquire the name), &#8216;Indy&#8217; (hated snakes), Magellan (bad sense of direction), &#8216;Moses&#8217; (seen talking to a bush) and many others.Ros got the name &#8220;Compass&#8221; some time ago, due to her lack of sense of direction (we could have ended up in Mexico a couple of times).A couple of days ago, Robert was named &#8220;Moss&#8221; for obvious reasons.<img data-attachment-id=\"2572\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/2019\/06\/19\/trail-names\/img_3745-023498290256144419046\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_3745-023498290256144419046.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1788,2714\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_3745-023498290256144419046.jpeg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_3745-023498290256144419046-198x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_3745-023498290256144419046-675x1024.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2572 failed alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_3745-023498290256144419046.jpeg\" width=\"1788\" height=\"2714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_3745-023498290256144419046.jpeg 1788w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_3745-023498290256144419046-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_3745-023498290256144419046-768x1166.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_3745-023498290256144419046-675x1024.jpeg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1788px) 100vw, 1788px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is customary for long distance hikers to be given a trail name.We have met &#8216;Socks&#8217;, &#8216;Pockets&#8217;, &#8216;Semper Gumby&#8217; (always flexible), &#8216;Crunchmaster&#8217; (crunches the miles and once managed 52 miles in one day), &#8216;Smiles&#8217; who hikes with him, &#8216;Rockstar&#8217;, &#8216;Hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLLGr-Ft","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loudonweb.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}