{"id":151,"date":"2007-12-23T23:28:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-12-23T23:28:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T05:28:29","slug":"winter-well-and-truly-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Winter Well and Truly Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8 78%\u00a0 25%\u00a0 0mph SW bar 29.86 steep rise winchill 8\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Full Cold Moon<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.\u00a0 Christmas will come to a snowy world here in Andover,\u00a0a\u00a0white landscape\u00a0for the celebration; the moon on the crest of the new fallen snow does give a lustre of mid-day to objects below.<\/p>\n<p>We spent a quiet evening at home, reading and watching the Vikings, frustrated again.\u00a0 Perhaps they&#8217;ll pick their game up next week.\u00a0 We&#8217;re into the the second week of the nutrisystem and I&#8217;ve gotta say it seems like a good plan.\u00a0 The only negatives so far are that some of the food isn&#8217;t great&#8211;not bad, but not great&#8211;and I still get hungry late in the night.\u00a0 Like right now.\u00a0 The upside is that Kate has lost 4 pounds and I&#8217;ve lost enough to not feel squished into my jeans anymore.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to weigh myself at the end of the 1st month and the end of the 2nd.\u00a0 I do feel lighter, better.<\/p>\n<p>After Christmas we come to our version of the Mayan&#8217;s five useless days at the end of the year.\u00a0 These have always been days when I&#8217;ve chosen to focus research on a topic of special interest.\u00a0 This year it will be immortality.\u00a0 There is this novel that keeps trying to get born and it has something to do with immortality although what I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>This is a special time for me, a time to think, to consider the year past and the year to come.\u00a0 I love the snowed in , cold outside feeling.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just right for this kind of inner work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 78%\u00a0 25%\u00a0 0mph SW bar 29.86 steep rise winchill 8\u00a0 Winter \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Full Cold Moon Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.\u00a0 Christmas will come to a snowy world here in Andover,\u00a0a\u00a0white landscape\u00a0for the celebration; the moon on the crest of the new fallen snow does give a lustre of mid-day to objects below. We spent a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Well and Truly Begun<\/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":[1],"tags":[55,192],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-christmas","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}