{"id":179,"date":"2007-12-29T22:58:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T04:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2007-12-29T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T05:00:52","slug":"the-beauty-of-folded-metal-blades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Folded Metal Blades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20\u00a0 87%\u00a0 27%\u00a0 omph\u00a0 ESE\u00a0 bar29.95 falls windchill 20 Yuletide<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Cold Moon<\/p>\n<p>Kate and I bought ourselves a new knife set for the holidays, Japanese knives made of beautiful folded metal.\u00a0 Boy, are they sharp.\u00a0 My fingers bear the proof.\u00a0 The slightest contact with skin and these knives cut.\u00a0 Of course, that is the point (or the edge); still, I wonder how long it&#8217;s going to take for me to learn how to use them well?<\/p>\n<p>Watched the Patriots beat the Giants.\u00a0 A battle down to the end.\u00a0 Randy Moss looked great, just as I remembered him.\u00a0 He floats up, puts out his hands and the ball gravitates toward him.\u00a0 I should say, almost as I remembered him.\u00a0 In this game he blocked.<\/p>\n<p>A quiet time now, meditative.\u00a0 The windows which during the day show me 7 oaks now reflect back the rooms interior.\u00a0\u00a0 The night can bring us to our inner selves, reflected back in the mirror of a calmed\u00a0soul, a soul often too busy in daylight busyness, focused on the world outside the window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20\u00a0 87%\u00a0 27%\u00a0 omph\u00a0 ESE\u00a0 bar29.95 falls windchill 20 Yuletide \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Cold Moon Kate and I bought ourselves a new knife set for the holidays, Japanese knives made of beautiful folded metal.\u00a0 Boy, are they sharp.\u00a0 My fingers bear the proof.\u00a0 The slightest contact with skin and these knives cut.\u00a0 Of course, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Beauty of Folded Metal Blades<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}