{"id":10260,"date":"2011-05-04T22:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T04:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10260"},"modified":"2011-05-04T22:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T04:43:31","slug":"good-news-good-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10260","title":{"rendered":"Good News, Good Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Last Frost Moon<\/p>\n<p>Good news from the vet.\u00a0 Vega&#8217;s kidneys are ok, so a round of doxycycline should set her right.\u00a0 She&#8217;s so lovable, a goofy, intelligent, sweet animal, a joy to be around.<\/p>\n<p>Then another death related incident.\u00a0 A friend called for thoughts about a service he was conducting for a deceased friend.\u00a0 This guy suffered from bi-polar disorder and was found two weeks ago in his house, a suicide.\u00a0 He had killed himself in 2008.\u00a0 Friends and relatives thought he was in Mexico.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10261\" title=\"cropped3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cropped3.png\" alt=\"cropped3\" width=\"329\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cropped3.png 411w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cropped3-246x300.png 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark says he was a dog person in Bangkok and I can see that here.\u00a0 He finds our dogs a real help, sort of a therapy pack.\u00a0 That&#8217;s one reason we keep dogs, because their presence cheers up the house and adds loving beings to our day.\u00a0 What&#8217;s not good about that?\u00a0 Well, ok, there is that death thing, but that&#8217;s the price of love.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to show one more of Mark Odegard&#8217;s designs, all of them wonderful.\u00a0 This one has its fans among my docent colleagues, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Last Frost Moon Good news from the vet.\u00a0 Vega&#8217;s kidneys are ok, so a round of doxycycline should set her right.\u00a0 She&#8217;s so lovable, a goofy, intelligent, sweet animal, a joy to be around. Then another death related incident.\u00a0 A friend called for thoughts about a service he was conducting for a deceased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good News, Good Art<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,65,11],"tags":[2273,1845,1653],"class_list":["post-10260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-family","category-friends","tag-mark-ellis","tag-mark-odegard","tag-vega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10262,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10260\/revisions\/10262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}