{"id":10815,"date":"2020-07-13T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10815"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:32:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T20:32:05","slug":"camping-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/13\/camping-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jul\/11\/camping-glamping-coronavirus-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;Everyone wants to get outside&#8217;: boom in camping as Americans escape after months at home<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by Miranda Bryant in NEW YORK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8054ca75e23964ed7c10e768c36b632f403faad0\/0_0_6115_4077\/master\/6115.jpg?width=1300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=22b01fc6afe175f90d08355e8b357fc0\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>A campground at Joshua Tree national park in southern California. The National Park Service said 330 of its 419 sites are open, although some services are limited. Photograph: Jae C Hong\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic has put many people off hotels and planes \u2013 but socially distanced outdoors holidays are enjoying a surge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coronavirus has sparked a surge in RV or motorhome purchasing and rental, and enthusiastic camping and \u201cglamping\u201d bookings as Americans attempt to escape months of quarantine for a summer break while avoiding flights and keeping their distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic, which continues to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/07\/fauci-first-wave-coronavirus-us-nears-130000-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rage<\/a>\u00a0across the US, has made many traditional holiday activities either impossible or unappealing, putting millions off flying abroad, going to crowded resort hotels, group holidays or cruises. But experts say the apparent lower risk of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/15\/us\/coronavirus-what-to-do-outside.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transmission<\/a>\u00a0in the open is making outdoor holidays in demand \u2013 and attracting new fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jul\/11\/camping-glamping-coronavirus-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian &#8216;Everyone wants to get outside&#8217;: boom in camping as Americans escape after months at home by Miranda Bryant in NEW YORK The pandemic has put many people off hotels and planes \u2013 but socially distanced outdoors holidays are enjoying a surge The coronavirus has sparked a surge in RV or motorhome purchasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}