{"id":20535,"date":"2013-06-07T22:46:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T04:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20535"},"modified":"2013-06-07T22:46:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T04:46:42","slug":"first-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20535","title":{"rendered":"First Fire"},"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 New (Solstice) Moon<\/p>\n<p>The old moon went to black and the new moon in waiting, the Solstice Moon, has not yet appeared. \u00a0The weather stayed on the cool and cloudy side today though it did get a bit warmer later.<\/p>\n<p>Kate and I had first fire in our new fire pit area, dining on a delicious dinner of cowboy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1000IMAG03563.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20536\" title=\"1000IMAG0356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1000IMAG03563-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1000IMAG03563-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1000IMAG03563.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>caviar, chicken wings and a broccoli, bacon and raisin salad while part of a dead black locust tree burned. \u00a0The crushed gravel we had Javier put around it will have to be modified in some way since it tends to slough when walked upon. \u00a0Could have foreseen that but didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>We sat there, watching the smoke rise among the ash trees around the border of what used to be a compost pile. \u00a0Our woods surrounds the area, in essence a new outdoor room tucked into the front edge of the trees near the grandkids playhouse. \u00a0Looking back into the woods I kept wondering what it would have been like, looking into woods like these and not knowing where they ended. \u00a0You can&#8217;t even see our property line, so the woods could be impenetrable for all that can be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward we watched two more episodes of the Swedish crime drama, Wallander, not the Branagh one, but the original. \u00a0I like the Swedish one better. \u00a0In it Wallander has more personality in it than the depressive, uncommunicative character portrayed by Branagh.<\/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 New (Solstice) Moon The old moon went to black and the new moon in waiting, the Solstice Moon, has not yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20535\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Fire<\/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":[237,65,13],"tags":[597],"class_list":["post-20535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-family","category-our-land","tag-fire-pit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535","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=20535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24163,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions\/24163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}