{"id":12564,"date":"2011-12-28T08:33:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12564"},"modified":"2011-12-28T08:33:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T14:33:01","slug":"ancient-of-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12564","title":{"rendered":"Ancient of Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0First Moon of the New Year<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12567\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12567\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/10101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12567 \" title=\"1010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/10101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/10101.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/10101-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock Hopper juvenile Falkland Islands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Tumblr site is up, though it has very few postings right now. \u00a0That will change over the\u00a0next few weeks and the initial postings may change, too, as I use the new theme more. \u00a0You can access the site through the link, Ancient of Trails, found at the top of the right hand column here.<\/p>\n<p>Why another blog? \u00a0Tumblr allows for much easier posting of photos and emphasizes them over print. \u00a0We have a large number of photographs and I need the impetus to organize and fiddle with them. \u00a0In late January I&#8217;m taking a two session class on Adobe Photoshop, then another later in February. \u00a0In March and April I plan to learn two more Adobe programs. \u00a0I bought an Adobe Creative Suite last fall before the cruise but the programs are too complicated to use without some training upfront.<\/p>\n<p>All of this, too, ancientrails and ancient of trails, will leave cyber footprints for children and grand-children, a way to look back at Grandpa and Grandma, see what they were up to back when computers actually sat on desktops, folks still had landlines and watched broadcast tv. \u00a0You know, the old days.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in January I&#8217;m going to begin mining ancientrails for a 2012 writing project, one 5,000+ word essay a month, so there are additional uses for them, too. \u00a0Thanks for reading, time to start doing some Latin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0First Moon of the New Year The Tumblr site is up, though it has very few postings right now. \u00a0That will change over the\u00a0next few weeks and the initial postings may change, too, as I use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancient of Trails<\/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":[65,23,197],"tags":[3902,3900,581,3901],"class_list":["post-12564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-geekworld","category-writing","tag-3902","tag-ancient-of-trails","tag-photographs","tag-tumblr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564","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=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12568,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions\/12568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}