{"id":11470,"date":"2011-09-11T07:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T13:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11470"},"modified":"2016-05-14T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T14:54:55","slug":"for-me-and-my-gal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11470","title":{"rendered":"For Me and My Gal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Full Harvest Moon<\/p>\n

Hay wagons filled with laughing teenagers.\u00a0 Plants beginning to go brown in the garden.\u00a0 Root cellars and pantries filling up from a growing season almost over.\u00a0 Thoughts of how to handle snow removal begin to occur.\u00a0 The first few leaves begin to turn, russet and gold tips on some maple trees.\u00a0 Evening cool downs and chilly nights.<\/p>\n

All under a harvest moon.\u00a0 The harvest moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal \"\"<\/a>equinox, sometimes landing in September (usually), but occasionally in October.\u00a0 Those who have any rural roots at all here in the Midwest know the scenes of hay baling, corn pickers mowing down corn stalks with their military grade blades, golden streams of corn flowing into the grain truck following nearby.<\/p>\n

Bulky combines in the wheat, moving castles of iron and computers guided by the cyber harvesters mounted in air conditioned cabs far above the fields.<\/p>\n

Farm implements move now from field to field, 20 mph obstacles on the back roads and highways, one set of tires, the right side, often on the shoulder, as these field creatures crawl along pavement, out stripped by cars and trucks whizzing by, creatures of the highway.<\/p>\n

All hale the gods and goddesses of the harvest, of reaping, of bounty.\u00a0 This is the American advantage.\u00a0 We have food, acre after acre of food.<\/p>\n

Yes, this September issue of Scientific American praises cities as efficient, creative, green.\u00a0 Cities are the future hope.\u00a0 Even the present hope.<\/p>\n

But let me tell you this.\u00a0 No farms.\u00a0 No cities.\u00a0 Rural counties may be depopulating, and they are, but the need for the products of the country only increases as the greener, efficient, creative cities thrive.\u00a0 It will always be so on this earth.<\/p>\n

So this harvest season maybe we should all put a temporary bumper sticker on our car:\u00a0 Hug a farmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Full Harvest Moon Hay wagons filled with laughing teenagers.\u00a0 Plants beginning to go brown in the garden.\u00a0 Root cellars and pantries filling up from a growing season almost over.\u00a0 Thoughts of how to handle snow removal begin to occur.\u00a0 The first few leaves begin to turn, russet and gold tips on some maple trees.\u00a0 … Continue reading For Me and My Gal<\/span> →<\/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":[17,9,1885],"tags":[3663,580,2665,570,3664,3662],"class_list":["post-11470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-wheel","category-great-work","category-us-history","tag-combines","tag-corn","tag-farms","tag-harvest","tag-tractors","tag-wheat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470","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=11470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40481,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11470\/revisions\/40481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}