{"id":1641,"date":"2009-01-10T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2009-01-10T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T04:02:11","slug":"the-heart-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7\u00a0 falls 30.13\u00a0 W0 wchill 7\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n<p>Full Wolf Moon<\/p>\n<p>The Full Wolf Moon hangs high in the sky, hidden behind cloud cover.\u00a0 It casts a ring of ice crystals, giving it a gem in a circular setting look.\u00a0 The moon light suffuses the sky giving a bluish cast to the snow as it filters through the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Another busy day.\u00a0 Tomorrow I preach at Groveland.\u00a0 Preaching may not convey quite what I do.\u00a0 If you read any of the presentations\/sermons on the Liberal Religion page, you&#8217;ll get a better sense of what happens.\u00a0 I love the prep and the writing, the delivery adds a feedback dimension that I find valuable.<\/p>\n<p>The winter sits with its full weight upon the land here.\u00a0 Snow covers the garden.\u00a0 The deciduous trees have no leaves.\u00a0 The air freezes in the nostrils and makes layers necessary.\u00a0 Growth stopped; but the plant world has not died.\u00a0 It only waits, gathering strength, making itself ready.<\/p>\n<p>Winter has a somber tone, the weather serious and sometimes unrelenting.\u00a0 A Minnesota winter can kill you, so you have to pay attention.\u00a0 That makes it worthwhile.\u00a0 Like climbing a volcano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\u00a0 falls 30.13\u00a0 W0 wchill 7\u00a0 Winter Full Wolf Moon The Full Wolf Moon hangs high in the sky, hidden behind cloud cover.\u00a0 It casts a ring of ice crystals, giving it a gem in a circular setting look.\u00a0 The moon light suffuses the sky giving a bluish cast to the snow as it filters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Heart of Winter<\/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":[3,197],"tags":[85,1322,190],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-climate","category-writing","tag-cold","tag-homecomer","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","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=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}