\u201cOne of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey.\u201d The words belong to William Hazlitt, a British naturalist, who in 1835 is thought to have written the first essay on walking.<\/p>\n
I found him because I\u2019ve been researching my favorite retirement activity for some time now and have decided to share my discoveries with you.<\/p>\n
For now, I\u2019ll start with the beginning.<\/p>\n
With why I walk.<\/p>\n
Are you ready?<\/p>\n
I like it!<\/p>\n
Profound stuff, huh? OK, if not earthshaking, it does make sense. Aaron Sussman and Ruth Goode in The Magic of Walking<\/em> tell us something most of us already know: \u201cNo matter what your motivation, whether you walk because a book or a friend or your spouse recommended it, or your doctor prescribed it, you will go on walking only if you enjoy it<\/em> (emphasis is mine).<\/p>\n So another question comes to mind: Why will you enjoy it? What makes walking fun? Can we make it fun or does it just happen? These are questions I had as I read the research. And my findings will be the subject of the blogs to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cOne of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey.\u201d The words belong to William Hazlitt, a British naturalist, who in 1835 is thought to have written the first essay on walking. I found him because I\u2019ve been researching my favorite retirement activity for some time now and have decided to share […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}