{"id":19004,"date":"2013-03-16T22:56:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T04:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19004"},"modified":"2013-03-16T22:56:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T04:56:50","slug":"salmon-chess-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19004","title":{"rendered":"Salmon, Chess, Homeland"},"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 \u00a0Bloodroot Moon<\/p>\n<p>Kate cooked salmon with a wonderful glaze, cut green beans and a salad with orange, feta cheese, cubed cucumber, lettuce. \u00a0All excellent.<\/p>\n<p>We discussed the first, basic aspects of chess tonight. \u00a0How to position the board, white on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/notation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19005\" title=\"notation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/notation-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/notation-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/notation.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>the right, and line up the pieces. \u00a0Then a brief lesson in how each piece moves. \u00a0The chess set is now on the end of the dining room table. \u00a0Kate&#8217;s never played.<\/p>\n<p>I like chess because after determining who gets white nothing else involves chance. \u00a0It&#8217;s complexity appeals to me, too, but because it is complexity contained in space and time, complexity of a finite duration. \u00a0It defines well time devoted to the game and time outside the game. \u00a0Plus, no tee times. \u00a0No golf carts and no slices or hooks.<\/p>\n<p>And, like good video streamers of the second decade of the third millennium we binge watched Homeland, finishing the thirteenth episode tonight with Clair Danes strapped down, medicated and receiving shock treatment&#8211;just as she remembers a key clue in the case of Sgt. Brody. \u00a0The downside of binge watching current programs is that after you finish you have to wait a year or more for the continuation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 \u00a0Bloodroot Moon Kate cooked salmon with a wonderful glaze, cut green beans and a salad with orange, feta cheese, cubed cucumber, lettuce. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19004\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Salmon, Chess, Homeland<\/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":[237,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19004","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=19004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19007,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19004\/revisions\/19007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}