{"id":215,"date":"2008-01-07T15:33:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=215"},"modified":"2008-01-07T15:33:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T21:33:04","slug":"lovecraft-meets-sigurd-olson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft Meets Sigurd Olson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>39\u00a0 74%\u00a0 29%\u00a0 0mph NNW\u00a0 bar29.59 steady 39windchill\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon<\/p>\n<p>New technology takes some time to absorb.\u00a0 This setup has optical links, which I&#8217;ve never used before, and the cables I have don&#8217;t work with the receptacles situated on the DVD player, TV and audio receiver.\u00a0 So, back to Ultimate Electronics.\u00a0 Then, since I&#8217;m using an\u00a0HDMI connector with the cable HD service the box Comcast has with the HDMI cable is the DVR which costs more.\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 And so on into acronym chaos.<\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, however, the Woollies meet in Minnetonka tonight at the Istanbul Bistro.\u00a0 The route to there from here takes me both both Comcast and Ultimate so I should have all the supplies necessary to put this puppy to bed by tomorrow.\u00a0 The speaker connections are all in place, the subwoofer is ready to woof and I&#8217;m ready to hear the damn raindrops.<\/p>\n<p>No joy on the Asia tour as a result\u00a0though I do have a plan:\u00a0 faith traditions of Asia.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll hit the Ghandara Buddha, the Mandala (tour requested), Poet Contemplating the Waterfall, Confucius, Kuan Yin, Pocket Buddha, Jizo\u00a0and the Divine Rainmaking Boy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Gunflint story progresses nicely.\u00a0 Sort of HP Lovecraft meets Sigurd Olson.<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s off today.\u00a0 Nice having her around.\u00a0 She&#8217;s finishing up the second curtain for the living room, a red brocade with a pale gold dragon fly motif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>39\u00a0 74%\u00a0 29%\u00a0 0mph NNW\u00a0 bar29.59 steady 39windchill\u00a0 Winter \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon New technology takes some time to absorb.\u00a0 This setup has optical links, which I&#8217;ve never used before, and the cables I have don&#8217;t work with the receptacles situated on the DVD player, TV and audio receiver.\u00a0 So, back to Ultimate Electronics.\u00a0 Then, since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lovecraft Meets Sigurd Olson<\/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":[8,65,23],"tags":[73,118,4359],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-family","category-geekworld","tag-technology","tag-tour","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}