{"id":12720,"date":"2012-01-12T22:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T04:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12720"},"modified":"2016-05-13T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T16:45:11","slug":"playing-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12720","title":{"rendered":"Playing Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 First Moon of the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n<p>Oh. \u00a0The card gods had it in for me tonight. \u00a0And about time, too. \u00a0I got cards that were almost good enough, but not quite. \u00a0And I kept playing them. \u00a0And playing them. \u00a0And then some more. \u00a0I had a great time. \u00a0It&#8217;s fun playing with these guys, win or lose.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back from the game I felt great. \u00a0Realized at this point that this feeling lifts me up and the serious, more work ahead feeling after political meetings, not so much, and I want more lift me up in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Driving back there were snow flurries, the temperature was either 17&#8211;the truckometer, 12&#8211;the sign on 35W just after 694 going north or 28&#8211;HOM furniture, which always runs hot. \u00a0Around 13 by my educated ears. \u00a0Windy, too. \u00a0Downright chilly.<\/p>\n<p>Felt great.<\/p>\n<p>Off to Denver in the AM. \u00a0The Great Western Stock Show. \u00a0Grandkids. \u00a0Time with my honey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 First Moon of the Winter Solstice Oh. \u00a0The card gods had it in for me tonight. \u00a0And about time, too. \u00a0I got cards that were almost good enough, but not quite. \u00a0And I kept playing them. \u00a0And playing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=12720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playing Cards<\/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":[65,11,3],"tags":[3500,2130,113],"class_list":["post-12720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","category-weather-climate","tag-cards","tag-denver","tag-sheepshead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720","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=12720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40345,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12720\/revisions\/40345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}