{"id":10382,"date":"2011-05-18T22:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10382"},"modified":"2016-05-14T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T17:33:31","slug":"a-northern-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10382","title":{"rendered":"A Northern Night"},"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\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 Full Last Frost Moon<\/p>\n<p>The last legcom call of the session tonight.\u00a0 I went into the Sierra Club office to make the call because I had to be in a meeting at 6 pm just down the block.\u00a0 The legcom call is at 5pm.\u00a0 Not enough time to make it into the city for a 6pm meeting.<\/p>\n<p>I got a chili cheese dog (oh, I know&#8230;) and a blueberry smoothie at the Fast Freeze across the street from the Sierra Club offices.\u00a0 Eating local.<\/p>\n<p>The last meeting was interesting, but went over time.\u00a0 I was glad when it ended.<\/p>\n<p>I still had the drive back to Andover of course, but I have a new book on DVD, so I had a reward.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a W.E.B. Griffith novel about the covert world.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not very adroit at getting the backstory into the narrative, in essence he tells most of it rather than shows.\u00a0 The real book starts somewhere well after the first few pages.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of those northern nights when the modest heat of the day lingered atop the oncoming chill of the evening, a time when driving becomes mesmerizing, a trip back in time.\u00a0 Nights spent cruising drive-ins, looking for girls.\u00a0 Nights driving past the acres and acres of corn that grew in the fields that surrounded my hometown.\u00a0 A night driving back to Kona from Kiluaea, a full moon in the sky and the air scented with jacaranda and jasmine.<\/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\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 Full Last Frost Moon The last legcom call of the session tonight.\u00a0 I went into the Sierra Club office to make the call because I had to be in a meeting at 6 pm just down the block.\u00a0 The legcom call is at 5pm.\u00a0 Not enough time to make it into the city for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Northern Night<\/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":[1],"tags":[27,4370],"class_list":["post-10382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-night","tag-sierra-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382","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=10382"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40683,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions\/40683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}