{"id":88478,"date":"2013-12-24T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=88478"},"modified":"2013-12-24T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T17:22:17","slug":"is-it-smart-or-safe-for-women-to-go-hiking-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=88478","title":{"rendered":"Is it smart (or safe) for women to go hiking alone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some experts weigh in on the longstanding debate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cNo American bats an eye in our modern age when women shop alone, drive alone, or eat alone. But hike alone, and you are most assuredly going to turn heads and acquire unsolicited lectures,\u201d writers Karen Somers in her article \u201cShould Women Hike Solo? Absolutely, Says One Trail Veteran,\u201d published by The Adventure Post back in 2011. And there it was amid my morning screen-fed reading\u2014another eloquent punch in a fight that never seems to find resolution: is it smart for a woman to hike alone? I\u2019ve spent one too many evenings arguing with my own parents over the dinner table about the same topic. And still, years later and hopefully a little wiser, I still don\u2019t know which side of the debate I\u2019m on\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/lifestyle\/culture\/post\/is-it-smart-or-safe-for-women-to-go-hiking-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some experts weigh in on the longstanding debate \u201cNo American bats an eye in our modern age when women shop alone, drive alone, or eat alone. But hike alone, and you are most assuredly going to turn heads and acquire unsolicited lectures,\u201d writers Karen Somers in her article \u201cShould Women Hike Solo? Absolutely, Says One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88479,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88478\/revisions\/88479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}