{"id":95223,"date":"2019-05-30T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T13:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/30\/charging-for-wild-camping-shows-a-failure-to-understand-what-makes-it-special\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T13:54:59","slug":"charging-for-wild-camping-shows-a-failure-to-understand-what-makes-it-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=95223","title":{"rendered":"Charging for wild camping shows a failure to understand what makes it special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot scheme launched to promote wild camping in two of England\u2019s national parks is charging \u00a320 a night. So, it\u2019s not really wild or really freeIt\u2019s Friday night and I\u2019m alone, standing on a hilltop gazing down at the lights in the villages below, where not a soul can see me.This was an escape on a whim after a busy week. I\u2019d had enough of the emails and the social media and wanted to disconnect from modern-day stresses. So, I packed some essential camping gear and jumped in the car. A couple of hours later I was reconnecting with nature, spotlit by the stars and getting ready for a night under canvas. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2019\/may\/30\/charging-wild-camping-20-pound-pilot-scheme-england-national-parks\" target=\"_blank\">Charging for wild camping shows a failure to understand what makes it special<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot scheme launched to promote wild camping in two of England\u2019s national parks is charging \u00a320 a night. So, it\u2019s not really wild or really freeIt\u2019s Friday night and I\u2019m alone, standing on a hilltop gazing down at the lights in the villages below, where not a soul can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}