{"id":20741,"date":"2013-06-20T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20741"},"modified":"2013-06-20T16:59:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T22:59:20","slug":"house-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20741","title":{"rendered":"House Guests"},"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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Solstice Moon<\/p>\n<p>The grand kids have arrived. \u00a0With their parents in tow. \u00a0We have a playhouse for them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/205370_10150977727553020_150695969_n1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-20742\" title=\"205370_10150977727553020_150695969_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/205370_10150977727553020_150695969_n1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/205370_10150977727553020_150695969_n1.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/205370_10150977727553020_150695969_n1-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a>that we put in the woods at the same time we put in the orchard. \u00a0Now, just outside the area of the playhouse, we have the new fire pit.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow night we&#8217;re going to have an inaugural solstice bonfire. \u00a0We plan bonfires on the two solstices and on Beltane and Samhain. \u00a0I hope these can begin to be gathering moments for folks interested in celebrating these turning points of the Great Wheel. \u00a0Stay tuned for more about these events. We&#8217;re going to test the bonfire concept tomorrow night on the grand kids, after that, y&#8217;all come.<\/p>\n<p>This family has been on the road since last Friday, driving from Denver to Chicago, then north across the Mackinac Bridge into the U.P., across the U.P. to the Brule for a night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1000IMAG03564.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20743\" title=\"1000IMAG0356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1000IMAG03564-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1000IMAG03564-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1000IMAG03564.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>then here this afternoon. \u00a0That&#8217;s a lot of time in the car for four people. \u00a0Exhausting might not even cover it.<\/p>\n<p>Good to have them here, building memories. \u00a0We get out there quite a bit, but it&#8217;s nice to have them here, too.<\/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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Solstice Moon The grand kids have arrived. \u00a0With their parents in tow. \u00a0We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House Guests<\/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":[65,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741","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=20741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20744,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions\/20744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}