{"id":3433,"date":"2024-12-17T05:20:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T12:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2024-12-17T05:20:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T12:20:59","slug":"walk-to-stimulate-your-senses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=3433","title":{"rendered":"Walk to Stimulate Your Senses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWalking gives us back our senses,\u201d wrote Sussman and Goode (<em>The Magic of Walking<\/em>). \u201cWe see, hear, smell the world as we never can when we ride.\u201d That\u2019s because our vehicles trap us, they explained. The doors and windows isolate us from things we would see, hear or smell if we were walking.<\/p>\n<p>Long before Henry Ford made his Model A, another Henry would exclaim \u201cAh to be able to get drunk on the air we breathe\u201d (Henry David Thoreau).<\/p>\n<p>I get it, and I\u2019m betting you do too. I\u2019m thinking of the smell (or is it taste?) of a cold November morning or the intoxicating aroma in the wake of\u00a0 a spring thunderstorm or the seductive fragrance of a pine forest luring me further up and further in to the Rocky Mountain high country.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have been drunk on air\u2014air I would not have tasted were it not for the walks that led me there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWalking gives us back our senses,\u201d wrote Sussman and Goode (The Magic of Walking). \u201cWe see, hear, smell the world as we never can when we ride.\u201d That\u2019s because our vehicles trap us, they explained. The doors and windows isolate us from things we would see, hear or smell if we were walking. Long before [&hellip;]<\/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-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","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=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}