{"id":1275,"date":"2008-10-11T08:54:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2008-10-11T08:54:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T14:54:36","slug":"the-ancient-trail-of-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Trail of Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>quick note:\u00a0 Boy, the pace of life accelerated with the coming of autumn.\u00a0 This last week it felt like I&#8217;d gone back to full-time employment.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad the week-end is here.<\/p>\n<p>Mine is a small life, no encyclopedia entries or feistschrifts, no monuments.\u00a0 Ordinary.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been lucky so far.\u00a0 The major stumbles I made got turned around by mid-life.\u00a0 Kate came along and made the journey forward companionable.\u00a0 There are few friends, but good ones.\u00a0 The things I do, I love.\u00a0 Dig.\u00a0 Plant.\u00a0 Harvest.\u00a0 Write.\u00a0 Preach.\u00a0 Tour.\u00a0 Spend time with the kids and their kids.\u00a0 Read.<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving is not a one-day holiday, but, rather, a life way, the ancient trail of gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>quick note:\u00a0 Boy, the pace of life accelerated with the coming of autumn.\u00a0 This last week it felt like I&#8217;d gone back to full-time employment.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad the week-end is here. Mine is a small life, no encyclopedia entries or feistschrifts, no monuments.\u00a0 Ordinary.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been lucky so far.\u00a0 The major stumbles I made got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ancient Trail of Gratitude<\/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":[14,65,11,18],"tags":[1067,52],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-family","category-friends","category-holidays","tag-gratitude","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","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=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}