{"id":1797,"date":"2006-12-29T09:48:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T09:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2006-12-29T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T09:48:48","slug":"a-long-hard-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"A long hard walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t say I entirely approve of such things &#8211; what is the POINT? I can&#8217;t help asking &#8211; but interesting that a British woman is about to break the record for <a href = \"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2522433,00.html\">walking to the south pole unassisted<\/a>. No, that&#8217;s not the <em>women&#8217;s<\/em> record, that&#8217;s THE record. I must find an occasion to use this on Comment is Free some time, where a certain set of commentators always get very exercised about how I&#8217;m being &#8220;unrealistic&#8221; about women&#8217;s physical capabilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two years after giving up her job as a marketing manager in Berkshire, Ms McKeand, 33, was on course to knock a full day off the previous record of 41 days 8 hours.<br \/>\nTo complete her trek Ms McKeand, from Newbury, Berkshire, has spent nearly six lonely weeks dragging a 100 kilo (220lb) sledge across 690 miles of ice plains in temperatures as low as minus 35C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t say I entirely approve of such things &#8211; what is the POINT? I can&#8217;t help asking &#8211; but interesting that a British woman is about to break the record for walking to the south pole unassisted. No, that&#8217;s not the women&#8217;s record, that&#8217;s THE record. I must find an occasion to use this on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}