{"id":9677,"date":"2013-09-12T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9677"},"modified":"2013-09-11T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T03:50:03","slug":"why-only-white-people-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/why-only-white-people-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Only White People Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/091213_0346_WhyOnlyWhit1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"438\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Search for an image of hikers and they&#8217;re invariably white points out Ryan Kearney. Why?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;d think hiking would be cheap, but it&#8217;s actually pretty expensive and minorities are usually poorer than white Americans. Backpacks and tents cost a lot and people have to fly or drive to their hiking destination.<\/li>\n<li>Not to mention the time costs. If you&#8217;re working two jobs you probably don&#8217;t have the time to explore the wilderness.<\/li>\n<li>For rich minority individuals camping might remind them too much of a difficult past that they were lucky to escape. Their idea of vacation thus involves relaxing at a seaside resort.<\/li>\n<li>The Outdoor Industry Association, for its part, is somewhat concerned about the lack of minority groups who enjoy the outdoors since they&#8217;re making up an increasing share of the population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/114621\/national-parks-popular-white-people-not-minorities-why\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/114621\/national-parks-popular-white-people-not-minorities-why\">The New Republic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search for an image of hikers and they&#8217;re invariably white points out Ryan Kearney. Why? You&#8217;d think hiking would be cheap, but it&#8217;s actually pretty expensive and minorities are usually poorer than white Americans. Backpacks and tents cost a lot and people have to fly or drive to their hiking destination. Not to mention the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/091213_0346_WhyOnlyWhit1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9680,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions\/9680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}