{"id":1256,"date":"2008-10-06T22:02:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T04:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2008-10-06T22:02:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T04:02:51","slug":"happy-either-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"Happy Either Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>63\u00a0 bar steady 29.96\u00a0 1mph S\u00a0 dew-point 55\u00a0 sunrise 7:17\u00a0 set\u00a0 6:45<\/p>\n<p>First Quarter of the Blood Moon\u00a0 rise 2:49 pm\u00a0 set 11:08 pm<\/p>\n<p>The Woollies met tonight at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstagsupperclub.com\/\">the Red Stag Inn<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The financial crunch was a topic of conversation.\u00a0 Scott talked about national currencies and local currencies as stable economies.\u00a0 One of us couldn&#8217;t take the ride and sold out last week into treasury certificates.\u00a0 Not me.<\/p>\n<p>We had an interesting conversation of what would happen if things go from bad to worse.\u00a0 We realized we could provide mutual aid.\u00a0 Minnesota has a great tradition of co-operative ventures and I think our commonweal could make the shift to barebones style of living.\u00a0 It wouldn&#8217;t be easy, but it might surprise us.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m too easily lulled to sleep by the people who think they know something, but so far I have not thought about jumping off even our deck.\u00a0 In fact, I will not.\u00a0 The money does not matter to me.\u00a0 Living with Kate I have had access to a far richer life-style, both financially and emotionally, than I ever imagined I could have.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve lived with little and a lot.\u00a0 I can do either one and be happy.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>63\u00a0 bar steady 29.96\u00a0 1mph S\u00a0 dew-point 55\u00a0 sunrise 7:17\u00a0 set\u00a0 6:45 First Quarter of the Blood Moon\u00a0 rise 2:49 pm\u00a0 set 11:08 pm The Woollies met tonight at the Red Stag Inn.\u00a0\u00a0 The financial crunch was a topic of conversation.\u00a0 Scott talked about national currencies and local currencies as stable economies.\u00a0 One of us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Either Way<\/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":[100,10],"tags":[1049,1048,4341],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-woolly-mammoths","tag-financial-crisis","tag-red-stag-inn","tag-woolly-mammoths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","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=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}