{"id":11271,"date":"2011-08-26T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T03:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11271"},"modified":"2016-05-14T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T15:20:49","slug":"just-like-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11271","title":{"rendered":"Just Like Canada"},"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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Honey Extraction Moon<\/p>\n<p>The nights have grown cooler.\u00a0 The August moon has begun to fade away, and the September moon will not come for a bit.\u00a0 Dark nights approach, a time for the occult.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota, Mark says, feels like Canada and the Twin Cities feel like Canadian cities.\u00a0 The bright blue August sky, the changed slant of the sun&#8217;s rays, the occasional cottony fluff high above us all combine, with cool nights and the gradually decreasing highs to put us in the same northern space as Ontario, our nearest Canadian neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>At our best, we are like Canada.\u00a0 We believe in health care for all people, a good education and jobs that require education.\u00a0 Winter helps define us and, hey, hockey is big.\u00a0 We have an openness to our governance that seems to be true in Canada, too.<\/p>\n<p>We share some totem animals, too:\u00a0 moose, raven, lynx, wolf.<\/p>\n<p>If Minnesota could be the next province, it would fit right in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Honey Extraction Moon The nights have grown cooler.\u00a0 The August moon has begun to fade away, and the September moon will not come for a bit.\u00a0 Dark nights approach, a time for the occult. Minnesota, Mark says, feels like Canada and the Twin Cities feel like Canadian cities.\u00a0 The bright blue August sky, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Like Canada<\/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":[246,3],"tags":[160,3618,169,1445,2103,2102],"class_list":["post-11271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota","category-weather-climate","tag-canada","tag-lynx","tag-mark","tag-moose","tag-raven","tag-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271","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=11271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40510,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11271\/revisions\/40510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}