{"id":429,"date":"2014-04-22T15:03:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/?p=429"},"modified":"2014-10-29T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:37:24","slug":"love-hate-relationship-to-trail-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Love-Hate relationship to trail rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love rocks. I love all their various colors, shapes, and sizes. As I hike the trail I get to see lots of rocks. Not only that, but I get to step on thousands and thousands of them. I love to step up on big embedded ones until my thighs ache. I love to step over, around and between middle size ones causing me to lose my concentration. However I especially love the little inch ones. Stepping on one with the ball of my foot as I climb causes me to stumble forward. To regain my balance I have to very quickly compensate with my absolutely-required hiking poles. But that&#8217;s not as bad as stepping on one of those rounded ones as I descend. Then my foot flies foreword and I stumble even faster backwards. Again my poles need to rapidly come to my rescue. It&#8217;s amazing that I haven&#8217;t yet fallen off the trail and over a cliff. Other than the shock to my emotions I don&#8217;t feel anything in either case. Yet if I unknowingly step upon a rock with the outside of my right or left heel, then the resulting stumble can be like one of the above along with a piercing pain as the new blisters I have recently developed are squeezed to the extreme. Yes. I love rocks. I love them here. I love them there. I just don&#8217;t love them anywhere under my feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140423-105357.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140423-105357.jpg\" alt=\"20140423-105357.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140423-105423.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140423-105423.jpg\" alt=\"20140423-105423.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>Here are some more lovely trail pictures. I especially loved the real chunky sections. My poles would stick deep into the holes. My ankles would twist and turn as I nimbly skipped across the rock pile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140501-154833.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140501-154833.jpg\" alt=\"20140501-154833.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140501-154804.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140501-154804.jpg\" alt=\"20140501-154804.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love rocks. I love all their various colors, shapes, and sizes. As I hike the trail I get to see lots of rocks. Not only that, but I get to step on thousands and thousands of them. I love to step up on big embedded ones until my thighs ache. I love to step &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/?p=429\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love-Hate relationship to trail rocks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/hiking\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}