{"id":904,"date":"2018-04-14T15:45:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2018-04-14T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T20:45:42","slug":"weight-reduction-do-you-really-need-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/weight-reduction-do-you-really-need-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight Reduction: Do You Really Need That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_905\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/F7F6A2DF-6419-4185-9C9D-67AA39A70EC5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-905\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/F7F6A2DF-6419-4185-9C9D-67AA39A70EC5.jpeg\" alt=\"Can opener from my first tour\" width=\"320\" height=\"215\" class=\"size-full wp-image-905\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/F7F6A2DF-6419-4185-9C9D-67AA39A70EC5.jpeg 320w, http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/F7F6A2DF-6419-4185-9C9D-67AA39A70EC5-300x202.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From my first bicycle tour<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I started on the Northern Tier in 2012, I had not cycled on a self-supported trip before. I did not have a stove. I used it to open cans of tuna fish. I am thankful for the wide availability of tuna in foil packets and many options not in a can. On my next tour I used the opener on my pocket knife. After that, I haven\u2019t carried any cans. At 6.4 ounces, it was a heavy luxury for limited use.<\/p>\n<p>My packing list is much more refined today, yet it still is not as light as I would like it to be. It still is not an ultra light packing list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started on the Northern Tier in 2012, I had not cycled on a self-supported trip before. I did not have a stove. I used it to open cans of tuna fish. I am thankful for the wide availability of tuna in foil packets and many options not in a can. On my next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,29,8,30],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bicycle-travel","tag-loaded-touring","tag-northern-tier","tag-packing-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bikeacrossusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}