{"id":1169,"date":"2008-09-18T20:20:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T02:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2008-09-19T21:15:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T03:15:04","slug":"angels-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Angels in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>70\u00a0 bar falls 29.98\u00a0 0mph S dew-point 58\u00a0 sunrise 6:57\u00a0 set 7:17<\/p>\n<p>Waning Gibbous Harvest Moon rise\u00a0 8:32\u00a0 set 11:01<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday nights I watch Supernatural on the CW.\u00a0 My lifelong fascination with gothic tales, especially ones involving demons makes this irresistible to me, even more so than Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I also enjoy.\u00a0 I mention it here because it took a very interesting twist tonight.\u00a0 An angel appeared.\u00a0 This is not at all like touched by an angel, this is more like grabbed by an angel.\u00a0 Anyhow, the entry into the program of the divine element in the supernatural separates Supernatural from everything that&#8217;s gone before on TV.\u00a0 At least as far I can recall.\u00a0 Should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>When I went out on the deck tonight, the smell of the dead trees was everywhere.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not an unpleasant smell.\u00a0 Sort of a green tobacco drying odor.\u00a0 When it hit my nose though, I rethought my earlier comments.\u00a0 About not missing the trees. \u00a0 It feels important to me to do a ritual on Saturday, before we chip them.\u00a0 They lived with us and we with them for 14 years.\u00a0 They never asked anything of us and in return offered shade, their presence.\u00a0 Their passing should not go unnoticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>70\u00a0 bar falls 29.98\u00a0 0mph S dew-point 58\u00a0 sunrise 6:57\u00a0 set 7:17 Waning Gibbous Harvest Moon rise\u00a0 8:32\u00a0 set 11:01 On Thursday nights I watch Supernatural on the CW.\u00a0 My lifelong fascination with gothic tales, especially ones involving demons makes this irresistible to me, even more so than Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Angels in the Dark<\/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":[14,909,336],"tags":[971,972,378],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-myth-and-story","category-permaculture","tag-buffy","tag-supernatural","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","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=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}