{"id":19588,"date":"2013-04-16T14:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T20:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19588"},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:57:39","slug":"the-sun-the-sun-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19588","title":{"rendered":"The Sun.  The Sun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \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 Planting Moon<\/p>\n<p>The Sun. \u00a0The Sun. \u00a0I can hear Tattoo calling from the end of Phaethon&#8217;s runway. \u00a0Yes, it&#8217;s another episode of Fantasy April in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Gonna have a little tea, then go clean out the bee hives, readying them for the new package arriving on Saturday. \u00a0My enthusiasm for beekeeping has waned over the last couple of years. \u00a0Little success in keeping colonies alive over the winter months combined with a stupid decision at the end of the season two year ago, a decision that I didn&#8217;t need my veil just this once.<\/p>\n<p>Powerful aversive conditioning. \u00a0Nature&#8217;s way of saying stay away from bee hives. Unfortunately, it has made the pleasures of beekeeping balance against the severe results of bee defenses. \u00a0When the bees die over the winter, the pleasure decreases.<\/p>\n<p>I finished my read through of Missing this morning. \u00a0Gonna check notes, review my plans and continue the revision process tomorrow. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got several clear ideas. \u00a0Thicker description. \u00a0More character development. \u00a0Stronger climax. \u00a0Expanded denouement. \u00a0Strip out certain narrative lines for use in book II and replace them with the expanded material above. \u00a0The critical piece is this last one because it will allow the story to achieve full coherence and set up the next novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \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 Planting Moon The Sun. \u00a0The Sun. \u00a0I can hear Tattoo calling from the end of Phaethon&#8217;s runway. \u00a0Yes, it&#8217;s another episode of Fantasy April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sun.  The Sun.<\/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":[1268,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588","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=19588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39297,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588\/revisions\/39297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}