{"id":57277,"date":"2023-09-03T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=57277"},"modified":"2023-09-03T17:40:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:40:43","slug":"how-to-dig-a-cathole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/skills\/survival\/how-to-dig-a-cathole\/","title":{"rendered":"Skill of the Week: Dig a Cathole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-178349\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SOTW-Cathole-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SOTW-Cathole-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SOTW-Cathole-1-320x413.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/06\/SOTW-Cathole-1-640x827.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manly-lessons\/develop-savoir-faire-james-bond\/\">savoir-faire<\/a>, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we\u2019ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your manly know-how week by week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When nature calls and you\u2019re in its house, no toilets are going to spring up out of the ground ready to use. A good outdoorsman knows to dispose of his waste properly, using Leave No Trace ethics to dig a cathole in an appropriate location. Properly executed, a cathole ensures that your business decomposes quickly so your favorite trails and outdoor havens stay clean and tidy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storytellersworkshop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Illustration by Ted Slampyak<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the&nbsp;savoir-faire, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we\u2019ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":178351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,42259,277],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-57277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illustrated-guides","category-skills","category-survival"],"featured_image_urls":{"aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cat-feat-349x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2016\/06\/cat-feat-320x244.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57277"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178352,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277\/revisions\/178352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57277"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=57277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}