{"id":11655,"date":"2011-09-23T16:38:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T22:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11655"},"modified":"2016-05-13T16:56:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T22:56:23","slug":"the-normal-extraordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11655","title":{"rendered":"The Normal Extraordinary"},"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 Waning Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>Just back from the grocery store.\u00a0 Kate went along, a nice treat.<\/p>\n<p>On so many levels the grocery store speaks to privilege.\u00a0 We have food, fresh food, all year round.\u00a0 Kate and I can buy food all year round.\u00a0 The U.S. has fields of grain, feeder lots with cattle and pigs, chickens and turkeys, fruit grows in many places, nuts, too.\u00a0 Vegetables grow within miles of every major metro area and within them, too.<\/p>\n<p>As citizens of a powerful country, albeit one in economic struggles, we have so many things available to us, things we consider normal, that are extraordinary in most of the world.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not to early to start thanks giving.<\/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 Waning Harvest Moon Just back from the grocery store.\u00a0 Kate went along, a nice treat. On so many levels the grocery store speaks to privilege.\u00a0 We have food, fresh food, all year round.\u00a0 Kate and I can buy food all year round.\u00a0 The U.S. has fields of grain, feeder lots with cattle and pigs, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11655\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Normal Extraordinary<\/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":[87,1,9,13,1885],"tags":[3708,2116,1438],"class_list":["post-11655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-general","category-great-work","category-our-land","category-us-history","tag-cornucopia","tag-grocery-store","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655","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=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40450,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions\/40450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}