{"id":6107,"date":"2015-01-01T10:26:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T10:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:26:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T10:26:36","slug":"a-philosophy-of-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/01\/01\/a-philosophy-of-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"A philosophy of walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the books I read over the holidays, it is Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gros's\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/books\/a-philosophy-of-walking-by-frdric-gros\/2012494.article\"><em>A philosophy of walking<\/em><\/a> that has made the most impression. \u00a0This is a book about, well, walking \u2013 different kinds of walking, different reasons to walk, and a range of well-known folk who walked \u2013 and walked, for example, Nietzsche, Kant, Thoreau, Nerval, Wordsworth and Gandhi. \u00a0Gros might have added AE Housman who, like Wordsworth, composed poems during his walks, although he often had a pint (or two) of beer beforehand to aid the poetic process \u2013 Housman, that is.<\/p>\n<p>There are chapters on Outside, Slowness, Solitudes, Silences, Eternities, Energy, Pilgrimage, Well-being, Strolls, Gardens, Gravity, and Repetition. \u00a0Gros is a French philosopher who works at\u00a0the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, but don't let that put you off as it's all rather inspiring \u2013 and beautifully written and translated. \u00a0If my life were ever to fall apart, I think I should just walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the books I read over the holidays, it is Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gros's\u00a0A philosophy of walking that has made the most impression. \u00a0This is a book about, well, walking \u2013 different kinds of walking, different reasons to walk, and a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}