{"id":2021,"date":"2009-03-11T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T04:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2009-03-11T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T04:22:58","slug":"the-little-legislature-that-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2021","title":{"rendered":"The Little Legislature That Could"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Winds<\/p>\n<p>Kate tweaked her neck at work.\u00a0 Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature has gone below zero one more time, -4.\u00a0 I heard on MPR today that the National Weather Service averaged all the highs and lows across the country.\u00a0 This winter was .5 degree warmer than last year.\u00a0 Not here in Minnesota, or the Upper Midwest, but highs in the Southwest and West balanced us out.<\/p>\n<p>The little engine that could has begun to huff and puff its way up the halls of the Minnesota Legislature.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a lot of I think I can, I think I can, I know I can, I&#8217;ll try going on over there.\u00a0 Unlike the children&#8217;s book however, this is a massive moving body with many interchangeable parts.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pulling for it to get up the hill.\u00a0 We all\u00a0 need it to make it.<\/p>\n<p>The cold weather can leave us now.\u00a0 The proud Minnesotan part of the winter is over; we&#8217;ve made our stand, yet another successful one, but now it&#8217;s time for a little warm weather.\u00a0 Coming Saturday I understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Winds Kate tweaked her neck at work.\u00a0 Ouch. The temperature has gone below zero one more time, -4.\u00a0 I heard on MPR today that the National Weather Service averaged all the highs and lows across the country.\u00a0 This winter was .5 degree warmer than last year.\u00a0 Not here in Minnesota, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2021\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Little Legislature That Could<\/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":[100,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","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=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}