{"id":1611,"date":"2008-12-31T21:44:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T03:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2008-12-31T21:44:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T03:44:41","slug":"and-a-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"And A Happy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/7oaks250.jpg\" title=\"7oaks250.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/7oaks250.jpg\" alt=\"7oaks250.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>9\u00a0 bar steep fall 30.12\u00a0 ENE9\u00a0 windchill 9\u00a0\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n<p>Waxing Crescent of the Wolf Moon<\/p>\n<p>Friend and cyberwizard Bill Schimdt reminded me of a wonderful show the sky put on tonight to celebrate the New Year.\u00a0 The moon with Venus in its arms.\u00a0 This is the waxing Wolf Moon, a sliver facing up toward the east with Venus just above and centered over it.\u00a0 The moon has an immediate tug on my memories, often creating a flood tide of associations from Islam to nursery rhymes to Neil Armstrong and Jules Verne.\u00a0 It also fires my love of the night, creating a light in the darkness, a light that does not cause the darkness to flee, but makes it more accessible.\u00a0 And they say lunacy is a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>This new year&#8217;s I plan to celebrate in dreamland.\u00a0 My new habit of a 10:30 bedtime is too fragile to wreck watching Dick Clark&#8217;s face-lift as the ball descends in Time Square.\u00a0 Windy and -1 there.\u00a0 Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>The new year comes this time with genuine opportunity for change, change that matters.\u00a0 I plan to be part of it and hope you do, too.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I refer to our property as 7 oaks.\u00a0 This is a photograph of those seven oaks, white and red.\u00a0 They grow on a small hill, visible from where I write. They are a grove, a fine companion in all seasons.<\/p>\n<p>-30-\u00a0 until 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\u00a0 bar steep fall 30.12\u00a0 ENE9\u00a0 windchill 9\u00a0\u00a0 Winter Waxing Crescent of the Wolf Moon Friend and cyberwizard Bill Schimdt reminded me of a wonderful show the sky put on tonight to celebrate the New Year.\u00a0 The moon with Venus in its arms.\u00a0 This is the waxing Wolf Moon, a sliver facing up toward the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1611\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And A Happy&#8230;<\/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":[23,13],"tags":[1336,221,1337],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekworld","category-our-land","tag-7-oaks","tag-new-year","tag-wolf-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","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=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}