{"id":23242,"date":"2013-11-19T15:08:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T21:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23242"},"modified":"2016-05-08T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T17:20:51","slug":"tea-in-the-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23242","title":{"rendered":"Tea in the Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \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 Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>A short morning since I slept in till 8:30. \u00a0Not usual. \u00a0I usually get up between 7:00 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/funincular1000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/funincular1000.jpg\" alt=\"funincular1000\" width=\"252\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/funincular1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/funincular1000-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a>7:30 am after a bed-time of 11:30. \u00a0Last night I was up until 11:50. \u00a0Not sure why I needed the sleep, but I did. \u00a0So, I&#8217;m alert. \u00a0That&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>An hour plus working on Missing. \u00a0I described Hilgo, a harbor town in the realm of the Holly King. \u00a0I used memories of Valparaiso, Chile, (see my photo) giving Hilgo a bi-level appearance with a large wharf.<\/p>\n<p>Got my first shipment of teas from Verdant Tea, a 3 oz. a month club that sends out seasonally apt teas in 1 oz. increments. \u00a0They also include brewing instructions. \u00a0Since I spend so much time at the computer, the gong fu cha method of brewing works very well. \u00a0Today I got a black, and two oolongs along with information about the farmer and their operation for each of them. \u00a0All Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>The first one I&#8217;m going to try is Qilan Wuyi Oolong. \u00a0This picture is a tea farm in the Wuyi mountains, famous in Chinese landscape paintings.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m back after the nap, ready to hit the Ovid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \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 Thanksgiving Moon A short morning since I slept in till 8:30. \u00a0Not usual. \u00a0I usually get up between 7:00 and 7:30 am after a bed-time of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=23242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tea in the Mail<\/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":[290,4,4305,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-cooking","category-tea-2","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242","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=23242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38794,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions\/38794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}