{"id":6577,"date":"2017-01-16T22:09:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T03:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2017-01-16T22:11:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T03:11:08","slug":"an-old-mans-wintertime-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=6577","title":{"rendered":"An Old Man&#8217;s Wintertime Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t gotten out to the woodlands for a hike in many months (old age is catching up with me).  But today dawned sunny with temps bound for the upper 30s and maybe even low 40s, so I decided to finally give it a shot.  I decided not to be too ambitious, given that it is wintertime and I&#8217;m not young anymore.  So I picked the highland park closest to my home, which is Ramapo Mountain Park, just off I-287. Ramapo is not exactly deep in the woodlands, and by afternoon is generally loaded with people walking their dogs (versus serious hikers).  But it&#8217;s still nice, and I managed to stay on my feet for two hours before getting back to the car for lunch and the drive homeward.   <\/p>\n<p>Here are four shots from my little &#8220;return to the woodlands&#8221; trip today.  Despite the lack of color and activity, there&#8217;s something charming about the woods in winter (at least on a milder day like today).  <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/winterhike1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/winterhike2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/winterhike3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/winterhike4.jpg\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t gotten out to the woodlands for a hike in many months (old age is catching up with me). But today dawned sunny with temps bound for the upper 30s and maybe even low 40s, so I decided to finally give it a shot. I decided not to be too ambitious, given that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}