{"id":386,"date":"2009-09-26T20:20:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T01:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/?p=386"},"modified":"2009-09-26T20:20:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T01:20:52","slug":"in-praise-of-the-humble-bandanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2009\/09\/in-praise-of-the-humble-bandanna\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of the Humble Bandanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>An essential piece of equipment for walking is the bandanna (can be spelled either bandana or bandanna). I prefer the dark blue classic look. The only other acceptable color is red. Everything else is, well something else.<\/p>\n<p>Among the uses for the bandanna while walking:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Wrap around your digital camera so it won&#8217;t be scratched while in your pocket.<\/li>\n<li>Soak perspiration on hot days.<\/li>\n<li>Put crushed ice on it, roll it, and put it around your neck on hot days.<\/li>\n<li>Soak it in cold water and put it around your neck on hot days.<\/li>\n<li>Tie things to your back pack with it.<\/li>\n<li>Put it around your neck backwards to keep the front of your neck from the sun.<\/li>\n<li>Put around the back of your neck to keep it from the sun.<\/li>\n<li>Put it around your neck to keep your body heat from escaping out of your collar on cold days.<\/li>\n<li>Wrap it around your hand on cold days to keep warm.<\/li>\n<li>Bandage scratches.<\/li>\n<li>Blow your nose.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The bandanna makes you look like you know what you are doing. It crosses all cultural lines from urban to rural and everything in between.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips An essential piece of equipment for walking is the bandanna (can be spelled either bandana or bandanna). I prefer the dark blue classic look. The only other acceptable color is red. Everything else is, well something else. Among the uses for the bandanna while walking: Wrap around your digital camera so it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}