{"id":7232,"date":"2015-03-05T06:05:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2015-03-09T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T22:51:46","slug":"harris-extolls-long-distance-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2015\/03\/05\/harris-extolls-long-distance-hiking\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison extolls long-distance hiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movie<em> Wild<\/em> (and the book that inspired it) has focused attention on long-distance hiking.<\/p>\n<p>Biology lab instructor Pat Harrison is president of\u00a0 both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hikecanada.org\/\">Hike Canada<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hike-bc.org\/\">Hike B.C.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In that role, he coordinates work on the National Hiking Trail, a project that would link existing single-track and heritage footpaths, stretching 10,000 kilometres, from Port Alberni, B.C., to St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland, and take about a year to thru-hike.<\/p>\n<p>He is quoted about the project in the latest edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/life\/402581\/pacific-crest-trail-inspires-long-distance-hikes-bc\">The Georgia Straight. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie Wild (and the book that inspired it) has focused attention on long-distance hiking. Biology lab instructor Pat Harrison is president of\u00a0 both Hike Canada and Hike B.C. In that role, he coordinates work on the National Hiking Trail, a project that would link existing single-track and heritage footpaths, stretching 10,000 kilometres, from Port &#8230; <a title=\"Harrison extolls long-distance hiking\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2015\/03\/05\/harris-extolls-long-distance-hiking\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7258,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}