{"id":21355,"date":"2013-07-22T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T22:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21355"},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:42:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:42:09","slug":"vestigiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21355","title":{"rendered":"Vestigiality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \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 Moon of the First Harvests<\/p>\n<p>Every birth brings new royalty into the world just as each birth brings new divinity into the world. \u00a0Not many will have the definite opportunity to move on up to, say, King, though. \u00a0I suppose the excitement from a monarchist&#8217;s point of view is that steady governance now stands assured for three generations in England, barring trauma or disease. \u00a0So in some sense this birth is equivalent to a presidential election in the U.S. in that in presages a peaceful transfer of power from one leader to another. \u00a0Important.<\/p>\n<p>Though how important in a constitutional monarchy may not be so clear. \u00a0A curious form of governance those. \u00a0Kings and Queens with their power checked by elected leaders. \u00a0Better than the reverse I&#8217;m sure and better than the prior arrangement, too. \u00a0Still, it does make me think of sinus cavities, appendix and the coccyx.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \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 Moon of the First Harvests Every birth brings new royalty into the world just as each birth brings new divinity into the world. \u00a0Not many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vestigiality<\/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":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21355","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=21355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39034,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21355\/revisions\/39034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}