{"id":2531,"date":"2023-05-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/cairn-making-a-meditative-activity-that-can-bring-you-closer-to-the-earth-and-your-community\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T21:00:00","slug":"cairn-making-a-meditative-activity-that-can-bring-you-closer-to-the-earth-and-your-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/cairn-making-a-meditative-activity-that-can-bring-you-closer-to-the-earth-and-your-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Cairn Making &#8211; A Meditative Activity That Can Bring You Closer to the Earth and Your Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairn building can be a surprisingly meditative practice that brings you closer to your community and the earth. It&#8217;s a great <a href=\"https:\/\/cairnspotter.com\/category\/uncategorized\/\" >http:\/\/cairnspotter.com\/category\/uncategorized<\/a> way for you to get your mind off of the everyday and focus more on balance and permanence.\n<\/p>\n<p>Cairns have been used by many cultures throughout history for a variety of purposes. They could have been built to mark a path, indicate a food supply, or warn of danger. Cairns are also used as burial sites by Native Americans in North America. This practice is known as inukshuk.\n<\/p>\n<p>The word cairn comes from a Gaelic term that means &#8220;heap of stones.&#8221; They are usually built in the form of a hill of rock. They range in size from small rock sculptures to large man-made hills of stone, some of which are comparable to kistvaens and dolmens but built of stone rather than ephemeral earthworks.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hikers, in particular, have a long and varied use for cairns. Cairns can be used by hikers to return to the trailhead at the end of a long day of hiking or to help them find their way in remote wilderness areas.\n<\/p>\n<p>A well-placed, properly-marked cairn may save lives by guiding a group of lost hikers. Some people, however, argue that cairns don&#8217;t belong in nature and violate the Leave No Trace principle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairn building can be a surprisingly meditative practice that brings you closer to your community and the earth. It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sem-categoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inovastart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}