{"id":227,"date":"2008-01-11T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2008-01-11T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:42:17","slug":"one-month-and-three-belt-notches-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"One Month and Three Belt Notches Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>22\u00a0 80%\u00a0 28%\u00a0 0mph WSW bar29.78\u00a0 windchill 22\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Winter Moon<\/p>\n<p>Fifth graders today from Harambee Community Culture School.\u00a0 We marveled at Shiva&#8217;s four arms, heard a Tibetan monk who happened to be in the gallery explain the Mandala, walked through the Celebration of Bestowed Glory and looked at the four noble professions.\u00a0 We investigated the scholar&#8217;s study and found implements for calligraphy, poetry, painting and music making.\u00a0 We teased out differences between the Greco-Roman influenced Ghandara Buddha and the Japanese depiction of Amitbha Buddha.\u00a0 Both groups were fun, responsive.\u00a0 My questions helped somewhat, but generally I just went with the flow, answering questions, prodding, making linkages.\u00a0 So my project manager can rest easy about this one.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s that highlights tour and another Asia tour next week&#8230;\u00a0 But, shh.\u00a0 We won&#8217;t tell him just yet.<\/p>\n<p>The second nutrisystem order came. It is a sensible, straight forward weight loss program.\u00a0 It works.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t know how much I&#8217;ve lost but I&#8217;ve gone in three belt notches and can wear pants I gave up on long ago.\u00a0 Tomorrow I plan to weigh in and take my fasting blood sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22\u00a0 80%\u00a0 28%\u00a0 0mph WSW bar29.78\u00a0 windchill 22\u00a0 Winter \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Winter Moon Fifth graders today from Harambee Community Culture School.\u00a0 We marveled at Shiva&#8217;s four arms, heard a Tibetan monk who happened to be in the gallery explain the Mandala, walked through the Celebration of Bestowed Glory and looked at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Month and Three Belt Notches Later<\/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],"tags":[4337,110],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}