{"id":21827,"date":"2013-08-18T14:34:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T20:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21827"},"modified":"2013-08-18T19:21:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T01:21:16","slug":"a-quiet-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21827","title":{"rendered":"A Quiet Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \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 Honey Moon<\/p>\n<p>A quiet birthday as phone calls come in wishing the birthday girl well. \u00a0We had a long nap and have spent time reading after it. \u00a0Kate&#8217;s reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Orange-Is-New-Black-ebook\/dp\/B0036S4B6M\">Orange Is The New Black<\/a>, the prison<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2009-11-10_0592.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-21828\" alt=\"2009 11 10_0592\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2009-11-10_0592.jpg\" width=\"323\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2009-11-10_0592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2009-11-10_0592-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a> memoir turned into a Netflix series which we watched a couple of weeks ago. \u00a0I&#8217;m reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/books\/titles\/211976442\/ninety-percent-of-everything-inside-shipping-the-invisible-industry-that-puts-cl\">Ninety Percent of Everything<\/a>, a narrative about the merchant shipping industry. \u00a0After seven weeks of visiting ports throughout Latin America, I developed a strong curiosity about containers and container shipping.<\/p>\n<p>This reading is a bit unusual since neither of us read a lot of non-fiction, leaning more toward mystery, thriller, fantasy and the classics. \u00a0I find I buy non-fiction and often leave it unread, or read it much later.<\/p>\n<p>Later on tonight we plan to have a bonfire, a celebratory one, with sparklers and smores for Kate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \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 Honey Moon A quiet birthday as phone calls come in wishing the birthday girl well. \u00a0We had a long nap and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21827\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Quiet Birthday<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827","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=21827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21830,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21827\/revisions\/21830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}