{"id":16843,"date":"2012-10-19T08:25:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16843"},"modified":"2016-05-10T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T21:00:50","slug":"just-like-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16843","title":{"rendered":"Just Like #24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Fallowturn Moon<\/p>\n<p>Got a little wound up yesterday about anti-science. \u00a0Nothing on the plate like that today. \u00a0Just rain, or at least, drizzle. \u00a0Cool. \u00a0Gray.<\/p>\n<p>Got my\u00a0ax, my felling\u00a0ax. \u00a0Handmade. \u00a0Handforged and sharpened. \u00a0Hand turned handle. \u00a0A simple tool. \u00a0I like that. \u00a0The kind I can understand. \u00a0After next weekend, I can get at it, too. \u00a0I have lots of woods, lots of chances to perfect my technique while getting aerobic exercise and upper body resistance work.<\/p>\n<p>Gertie. \u00a0Like Adrian \u00a0Peterson. \u00a0A torn ACL. \u00a0Yes, her \u00a0ruptured disk has healed under prednisone therapy, but on physical examination her knee joint moved more than it should. \u00a0Probably a small tear that became big.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, our vet, Roger Barr, says they never see torn ACL&#8217;s in sight hounds, our usual breeds: \u00a0Whippets, Irish Wolfhounds, Salukis, Pharaoh Hounds. \u00a0Their ACL, he says, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Gertie-and-Kona-at-the-fence.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16846\" title=\"Gertie and Kona at the fence\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Gertie-and-Kona-at-the-fence-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Gertie-and-Kona-at-the-fence-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Gertie-and-Kona-at-the-fence.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>is like a cord.<\/p>\n<p>Gertie, though, our adopted granddog, is a German Short Hair, a breed that apparently does not have a cord like ACL. \u00a0That means she needs surgery. \u00a0Ouch. \u00a0Kate&#8217;s right. \u00a0Gertie&#8217;s young. \u00a0She&#8217;ll get back 80-90% of her use of that leg and her atrophied muscle should, with rehab, regain some mass. \u00a0So, we combed our budget and came up with the money. \u00a0Not an insignificant amount.<\/p>\n<p>A Latin tutoring session today. \u00a0Gotta go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Fallowturn Moon Got a little wound up yesterday about anti-science. \u00a0Nothing on the plate like that today. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Like #24<\/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":[56,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-our-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843","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=16843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39761,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16843\/revisions\/39761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}