{"id":1632,"date":"2009-01-08T08:44:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2009-01-08T08:44:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:44:27","slug":"beard-experiment-tells-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"Beard Experiment Tells Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-3\u00a0 steep rise 29.99\u00a0 W0 wchill -3\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n<p>Waxing Gibbous Wolf Moon<\/p>\n<p>The wind last night drove our bedroom windown open wider and the chilly night air blew on us early this morning.\u00a0 We always sleep with the window at least partway open, but this larger portal made even the down comforters inadequate.\u00a0 So we both woke up about 30 minutes or so earlier than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Kate said last night, &#8220;You must be happy with what\u00a0 you&#8217;re doing.&#8221; \u00a0 I said, &#8220;Yeah, the political stuff is work I know.\u00a0 I understand it in some depth.\u00a0 Besides, a guy needs some validation now and then.&#8221; \u00a0 Later, I asked her why she made that remark, &#8220;Oh.\u00a0 You shaved your beard.\u00a0 Not so much that fact, but that you were experimenting with it.&#8221; I was and I made it so peculiar that the only remaining option was to cut it all off, all the way off.\u00a0 &#8220;When you&#8217;re not happy,&#8221; she went on, &#8220;You&#8217;re more controlled.\u00a0 When you&#8217;re happier, you&#8217;re looser, more willing to try things.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how I knew.&#8221;\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 The clues we leave behind.<\/p>\n<p>Homecomer is now done, but I have to edit it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s today. Seed database underway, but far from done.\u00a0 Business meeting today, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-3\u00a0 steep rise 29.99\u00a0 W0 wchill -3\u00a0 Winter Waxing Gibbous Wolf Moon The wind last night drove our bedroom windown open wider and the chilly night air blew on us early this morning.\u00a0 We always sleep with the window at least partway open, but this larger portal made even the down comforters inadequate.\u00a0 So we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1632\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beard Experiment Tells Tale<\/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":[14,3,197],"tags":[85,1356,1355],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-weather-climate","category-writing","tag-cold","tag-editing","tag-happy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","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=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}