{"id":13253,"date":"2010-08-02T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/08\/02\/a-brief-conversation-while-preparing-to-hike-along-the-pacific-coast\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T07:00:01","slug":"a-brief-conversation-while-preparing-to-hike-along-the-pacific-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100802-01\/?p=13253","title":{"rendered":"A brief conversation while preparing to hike along the Pacific coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, one of my colleagues (who happens to be an avid outdoorsy person with a dry sense of humor) assembled a small group of people to take a long weekend hike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wta.org\/go-hiking\/hikes\/cape-alava-sand-point-loop\/\"> along the Capa Alava Trail<\/a> and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsox.us\/SPARES\/JJ.html\"> north along the Pacific coast<\/a>. As we gathered in the parking lot midday Friday with our backpacking gear, another of our colleagues (whom I will call &#8220;Mary&#8221;) walked past and the following conversation ensued:\n Mary: &#8220;Hey, where ya goin&#8217;? (joking) That way I can call Search and Rescue if I don&#8217;t see you on Monday.&#8221;\n Bob: &#8220;We&#8217;re heading out to Lake Ozette.&#8221;\n Mary: &#8220;Cool, where&#8217;s Lake Ozette?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Bob: &#8220;That&#8217;s okay, Search and Rescue knows where it is.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, one of my colleagues (who happens to be an avid outdoorsy person with a dry sense of humor) assembled a small group of people to take a long weekend hike along the Capa Alava Trail and then north along the Pacific coast. As we gathered in the parking lot midday Friday with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-13253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Many years ago, one of my colleagues (who happens to be an avid outdoorsy person with a dry sense of humor) assembled a small group of people to take a long weekend hike along the Capa Alava Trail and then north along the Pacific coast. As we gathered in the parking lot midday Friday with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}