{"id":10917,"date":"2011-07-23T15:21:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10917"},"modified":"2016-05-14T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T15:50:23","slug":"tru-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10917","title":{"rendered":"Tru-Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-Summer\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 Waning Honey Flow Moon<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t fit very well with other parts of my life, but I&#8217;m a big fan of the supernatural, maybe a hold-over from my orthodox religious days.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana, is the heroine of Charlaine Harris&#8217;s novels, 12 in all.\u00a0 She lives in a vampire, werewolf, fairy, shapechanger and maenad infested region which impacts her day-to-day life in ways wonderful and mysterious.\u00a0 The HBO TV series, Tru Blood, roughly follows the novels&#8217;s plot lines.<\/p>\n<p>It made me smile when I read this paragraph in an LA Times short piece on the 5th year of Tru-Blood.\u00a0 It features my congresswoman, who has made such a name for herself and our district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ball did hint, though, that the vampires might continue to fight over Sookie, but they will unite to fight for their survival as the season reaches its dramatic conclusion. The year\u2019s big baddie, Marnie, played by Fiona Shaw, isn\u2019t exactly the threat Ball mentioned, though: \u201cThey\u2019re going to stick together because they are fighting against a common enemy,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that enemy is Michele Bachmann.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-Summer\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 Waning Honey Flow Moon It doesn&#8217;t fit very well with other parts of my life, but I&#8217;m a big fan of the supernatural, maybe a hold-over from my orthodox religious days.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know. Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana, is the heroine of Charlaine Harris&#8217;s novels, 12 in all.\u00a0 She lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10917\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tru-Blood<\/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":[909],"tags":[1474,3523],"class_list":["post-10917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myth-and-story","tag-michele-bachmann","tag-tru-blood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917","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=10917"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40580,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10917\/revisions\/40580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}