{"id":2142,"date":"2026-08-30T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/sunset-camps-and-cold-dinners\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T20:15:00","slug":"sunset-camps-and-cold-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/sunset-camps-and-cold-dinners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset camps and cold dinners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the desert trip I stopped cooking in the evenings. It was too hot to want a hot meal, and packing up a stove at dusk was one more job between me and my sleeping bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cold dinners are not glamorous: tortillas, hard cheese, cold-soaked couscous with olive oil and whatever vegetables survived the day. But they are quick, and they leave the whole golden hour free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I choose camps for the light rather than for shelter, eat sitting on a rock, and watch the ridges go orange, pink and grey before I crawl into the tent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On hot trips I stopped cooking dinner altogether. It turned out to be the best change I made all summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":2132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/activello\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}