{"id":12251,"date":"2011-12-05T22:48:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T04:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12251"},"modified":"2016-05-02T11:16:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:16:23","slug":"woolly-mammoths-6-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12251","title":{"rendered":"Woolly Mammoths, 6 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n<p>First time at the Marsh, out on Minnetonka Blvd. \u00a0The Western burbs version of a California health spa. \u00a0In a small room off the dining area for their food service was a sign: \u00a0Woolly Mammoths, 6:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Inside were Bill , Warren , Frank , Stefan and Mark. \u00a0Tales of the trip, yes, but mostly we were there to support Warren whose mother received a cancer diagnosis two days before Thanksgiving. \u00a0She&#8217;s now in hospice care at an assisted living center, asking only for palliative care.<\/p>\n<p>Warren has been intimately involved with both his parents and his wife&#8217;s parents in their aging and decline. \u00a0They represent a degree of love and concern in that situation seen all too rarely.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back I couldn&#8217;t find any music I liked, so, as I&#8217;ve done a lot lately while driving, I turned the radio off and entered into a road trip state of mind, a little bit country and a little bit Zen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the Winter Solstice First time at the Marsh, out on Minnetonka Blvd. \u00a0The Western burbs version of a California health spa. \u00a0In a small room off the dining area for their food service was a sign: \u00a0Woolly Mammoths, 6:00 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woolly Mammoths, 6 pm<\/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":[60,127,10],"tags":[530,3826,340,169,3825,528,1751],"class_list":["post-12251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health","category-woolly-mammoths","tag-bill","tag-decline","tag-frank","tag-mark","tag-parents","tag-stefan","tag-warren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251","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=12251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36379,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions\/36379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}