{"id":11807,"date":"2011-10-06T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2011-10-06T21:40:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:40:09","slug":"draco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11807","title":{"rendered":"Draco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\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 Autumn Moon<\/p>\n<p>I might have been a little hard on Kevan.\u00a0 Or, maybe not.\u00a0 Bankers, can&#8217;t live with&#8217;em, can&#8217;t live without&#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>These last few nights the sky has been glorious.\u00a0 Draco has his head pointed down at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/draco.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11808\" title=\"draco\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/draco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>northern horizon, his tail flicking up high toward the east and toward the celestial pole.\u00a0 Cassiopeia hangs above his head, her distended W a signature of the northern night.<\/p>\n<p>Gertie, the Denver dog, escaped, twice today.\u00a0 She headbutted Pam and snapped at some kids.\u00a0 She&#8217;s not a safe dog with folks who are not in her head as family.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve got to keep her in the yard.\u00a0 The window washers left the grapeyard vine gate slightly open and that was enough for our Gert.\u00a0 She wriggled through and was on her own.\u00a0 Fortunately, she stayed in the yard.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to leave our dogs with Armstrong Kennels for forty days.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the longest we will have ever been away from them.\u00a0 It feels strange, but we&#8217;ve boarded dogs at Armstrong&#8217;s over the last 17 years and always had good experiences.\u00a0 The dogs become part of their family while we&#8217;re gone and are glad to see us when we get back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\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 Autumn Moon I might have been a little hard on Kevan.\u00a0 Or, maybe not.\u00a0 Bankers, can&#8217;t live with&#8217;em, can&#8217;t live without&#8217;em. These last few nights the sky has been glorious.\u00a0 Draco has his head pointed down at the northern horizon, his tail flicking up high toward the east and toward the celestial pole.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Draco<\/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":[56,23],"tags":[3751,3750,3255,3748],"class_list":["post-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-geekworld","tag-armstrongs","tag-draco","tag-gertie","tag-wells-fargo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807","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=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11810,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions\/11810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}