{"id":17254,"date":"2012-11-21T15:21:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T21:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=17254"},"modified":"2012-11-21T15:21:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T21:21:25","slug":"denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=17254","title":{"rendered":"Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \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 \u00a0Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>Slightly out of breath. \u00a0The mile high city will do that to you. \u00a0Already had the grandkids running, &#8220;Grandpa!&#8221; and grabbing on, getting lifted up. \u00a0The world has little better to offer. \u00a0Perhaps the unconditional love of a dog is equivalent.<\/p>\n<p>Jon and Jen have a backyard with grass, pathways of gray crushed rock, a tree house, a brand new Jon made dining room table, an impressive piece of carpentry, two new bathrooms, tiled and plumbed by Jon, a new master bedroom with big closets and a totally renovated kitchen. \u00a0And tomorrow they&#8217;ll serve Thanksgiving dinner. \u00a016 people.<\/p>\n<p>When I got up at 5:30 am, I wondered who had made the damned reservation. \u00a0(Me, back in August, when 8:22 am didn&#8217;t seem too bad.) \u00a0I was, however, pleased when I got to the airport on the busiest travel day of the year and waltzed right through security. \u00a0The plane left on time and arrived on time.<\/p>\n<p>A short trip, this one, but an important one. \u00a0For family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \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 \u00a0Thanksgiving Moon Slightly out of breath. \u00a0The mile high city will do that to you. \u00a0Already had the grandkids running, &#8220;Grandpa!&#8221; and grabbing on, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=17254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254","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=17254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17255,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions\/17255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}