{"id":1934,"date":"2015-03-12T21:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2015-03-12T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T21:23:22","slug":"pat-harrison-interviewed-by-georgia-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2015\/03\/12\/pat-harrison-interviewed-by-georgia-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Harrison Interviewed by Georgia Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The movie<em> Wild<\/em> (and the book that inspired it) has focused attention on long-distance hiking.<\/h4>\n<h4>Biology lab instructor Pat Harrison is president of\u00a0 both <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hikecanada.org\/\">Hike Canada<\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/hike-bc.org\/\">Hike B.C.<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>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.<\/h4>\n<h4>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\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">The Georgia Straight<\/span>.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Article originally posted as &#8220;Harrison extolls long-distance hiking&#8221; in\u00a0UFV Today on March 5, 2015. Read the original article <span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2015\/03\/05\/harris-extolls-long-distance-hiking\/\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/h6>\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=\"Pat Harrison Interviewed by Georgia Straight\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2015\/03\/12\/pat-harrison-interviewed-by-georgia-straight\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centre-for-environmental-sustainability","category-physical-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}