{"id":1926,"date":"2009-03-03T13:53:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T19:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2009-03-03T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T19:53:47","slug":"living-in-an-abstract-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"Living In An Abstract World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Moon of Winds<\/p>\n<p>Oh, geez, as we might say here in Minnesota.\u00a0 Got a phone call from my dentist&#8217;s office this morning asking me if I remembered my appointment.\u00a0 No, I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;I&#8217;m just sitting here.&#8221;\u00a0 The receptionist laughed and we rescheduled.\u00a0 This is the second missed appointment in a month, including my showing up for a 10:00 o&#8217;clock tour at 10:45.<\/p>\n<p>I know what&#8217;s going on right now.\u00a0 I&#8217;m deep in research for my American Identity presentation at Groveland on the 15th, researching my first Asmat art tour for this Friday and running fast to keep up with the changing legsilative fortunes of the Sierra Club legislation.\u00a0 The research and the Sierra Club\/Star-Tribune blogs occupy all of my attention.<\/p>\n<p>That makes me very happy because I love research and I love opportunities to turn around and share the results, which all of these instance allow me, but it also means I&#8217;m living in an abstract world that often fails to read the calendar. Oh, my.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta do something about this, but what?\u00a0 Let me see, if I read something about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Moon of Winds Oh, geez, as we might say here in Minnesota.\u00a0 Got a phone call from my dentist&#8217;s office this morning asking me if I remembered my appointment.\u00a0 No, I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;I&#8217;m just sitting here.&#8221;\u00a0 The receptionist laughed and we rescheduled.\u00a0 This is the second missed appointment in a month, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=1926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living In An Abstract World<\/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":[1365,1431,1432,4359],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-american-identity","tag-blogs","tag-forgetfulness","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","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=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}