{"id":18436,"date":"2013-02-14T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18436"},"modified":"2016-04-30T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T20:20:56","slug":"getting-my-kicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18436","title":{"rendered":"Getting My Kicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \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 \u00a0 Valentine Moon<\/p>\n<p>Woke up, saw fluffy white snow outlining the trees, shrubs and fences. \u00a0A beautiful way to start my 66th year. \u00a0Spoke with brother Mark, Mary kept off by technical issues. \u00a0A new hard drive. \u00a0Always a good way to lose a program or two. \u00a0As they say in the Old Testament, blessings and curses.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been motoring along this morning finishing up a lengthy session in Ovid. \u00a0Or, I should say, several one hour or one hour + sessions that equal a lengthy one. \u00a0I&#8217;ve translated 21 verses and I&#8217;m confident of most of what I&#8217;ve done. \u00a0There are still hitches in my git along, but at least for right now I seem to have a flow underway.<\/p>\n<p>Almost finished with the Eddas. \u00a0Then I&#8217;m going to put pencil to large format desk pad and start roughing out Loki&#8217;s Children. \u00a0I want to get it thought through to some extent before I start my revision of Missing. \u00a0That way, if I have to change things in Missing (and I think I will) I can do that in the upcoming 3rd revision. \u00a0I hope #3 is what will make me ready to start the search for an agent.<\/p>\n<p>As I said the other day, I&#8217;m cruising into the third phase of my life, which I count as having started with the arrival of my Medicare card, with clarity of purpose, emotional support from family and friends, and good health. \u00a0Here we go. \u00a0Charlie, the final chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \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 \u00a0 Valentine Moon Woke up, saw fluffy white snow outlining the trees, shrubs and fences. \u00a0A beautiful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting My Kicks<\/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":[65,3967,11,2109,3996,4003,197],"tags":[4135,4136,4089,2995],"class_list":["post-18436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-feelings-2","category-friends","category-latin","category-third-phase-2","category-translating-metamorphoses","category-writing","tag-4135","tag-jason-and-medea","tag-lokis-children","tag-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436","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=18436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35841,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436\/revisions\/35841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}