{"id":10961,"date":"2011-08-01T15:07:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T21:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10961"},"modified":"2016-05-14T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T15:47:42","slug":"9-pins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10961","title":{"rendered":"9 Pins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Honey Extraction Moon<\/p>\n<p>Woke up this first day of Lughnasa to Knickerbockers playing 9 pins and throwing strike after strike after strike.\u00a0 A nap on a thundery summer day has a luxurious feel, velvet, cushy.\u00a0 Gertie spent the nap at the foot of our bed.\u00a0 Both she and Rigel have mild ceraunophobia, shrinking when the lightning tears a hole in the sky and air spills into the vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I translated, sort of, an entire verse of Pentheus&#8217; 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