{"id":20103,"date":"2013-05-18T14:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T20:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20103"},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T21:27:09","slug":"agency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20103","title":{"rendered":"Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \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 Early Growth Moon<\/p>\n<p>A sunny afternoon, a thundery morning. \u00a0Snow this evening? \u00a0No. \u00a0Just kidding. \u00a0I think.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow we&#8217;re in the midst of a high humidity moment, again. \u00a065 dewpoint and 78. \u00a0Not the end of the world, but this is after all, just May 18.<\/p>\n<p>Went to a Hennepin County Library presentation on how to pick a literary agent. \u00a0It was actively bad. \u00a0The woman, whose name I will not reveal to protect the innocent, gave as her qualification for making the presentation her failure as a literary agent. \u00a0There you are.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I arrived a half-hour late and had to sneak into a spot where I couldn&#8217;t leave gracefully. \u00a0This is Minnesota. \u00a0So, I endured. \u00a0I had no way of knowing in advance that she would be terrible; it was a Loft sponsored event and I thought it might give me another slant on the whole agent side of publishing. \u00a0Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time this week I&#8217;ve gotten times\u00a0bollixed\u00a0up. \u00a0The first time we went to the American Swedish Institute and got there around 10:45. \u00a0When I tried to buy a ticket for the Sami show, the lady said, &#8220;The museum doesn&#8217;t open until noon.&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Oh,&#8221; I said, &#8220;That wasn&#8217;t clear on your website.&#8221; \u00a0Yes it was she said. \u00a0Then, I thought it was them.<\/p>\n<p>Two times and I&#8217;m the connecting link; I have to look at how carefully I look. \u00a0Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \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 Early Growth Moon A sunny afternoon, a thundery morning. \u00a0Snow this evening? \u00a0No. \u00a0Just kidding. \u00a0I think. Anyhow we&#8217;re in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agency<\/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-20103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103","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=20103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39222,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20103\/revisions\/39222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}