{"id":323,"date":"2024-10-21T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/21\/hiking-snack-packs-that-work\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T16:30:00","slug":"hiking-snack-packs-that-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/21\/hiking-snack-packs-that-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking Snack Packs That Actually Work."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I assemble snack bags on meal prep Sunday: almonds, pumpkin seeds, dried apricots, dark chocolate chips small enough to feel virtuous, a little salt. No neon candy pretending to be health. My crunchy trail life is not a gas station aisle at the interstate exit everyone uses.<\/p>\n<p>I add apple slices in a tight container with lemon so they do not brown. Water bottle frozen halfway so it stays cold at the overlook where I do yoga breath and Biscuit pretends he climbed Everest.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing snacks on a trail or at a shared picnic table makes strangers friendly\u2014the same as passing bread in a hostel kitchen thirty years ago, or offering a granola bar to the hiker who underestimated the loop.<\/p>\n<p>Pack one extra bar. Someone always forgets. Be the person who remembered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trail mix without the candy disguise\u2014fuel for legs and campground conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}