{"id":252,"date":"2008-01-21T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T15:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-01-21T09:44:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T15:44:12","slug":"the-undergods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"The Undergods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4\u00a0 70%\u00a0 19%\u00a0 omph\u00a0W bar30.55\u00a0 windchill4 \u00a0Winter<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Winter Moon<\/p>\n<p>The Giants are the undergods&#8211;oops, I meant to write underdogs, but I like undergods, too&#8211;against the \u00dcbergods, the New England Patriots.\u00a0 Long years ago, when I began to love anthropology, a favorite professor, David Scruton, said Americans are infracaninophiles, that is, lovers of the underdog.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe we&#8217;re also infratheophiles, lovers of the undergods.\u00a0 Anyhow, I wouldn&#8217;t count the Giants out.\u00a0 Their defense seems pretty sticky and Eli Manning and Plaxico Burress have a groove going.\u00a0 If they can get Bradshaw and Jacobs going early, they&#8217;ll have a chance.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>A light snow.\u00a0 The slightly warmer temps produce more interesting weather.\u00a0 The cold builds character and the days are usually bright and clear, but warmer weather often brings back the snow.\u00a0 We need some snow since the older snow got thinned out during the January thaw and we look a bit straggly here.<\/p>\n<p>On to the Transcendentalists and life in the thought lane.<\/p>\n<p>As Bill Schimdt noticed on yesterday&#8217;s post, the NFL pinged back.\u00a0 Bill said he was sure only the computer read my post.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4\u00a0 70%\u00a0 19%\u00a0 omph\u00a0W bar30.55\u00a0 windchill4 \u00a0Winter \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Winter Moon The Giants are the undergods&#8211;oops, I meant to write underdogs, but I like undergods, too&#8211;against the \u00dcbergods, the New England Patriots.\u00a0 Long years ago, when I began to love anthropology, a favorite professor, David Scruton, said Americans are infracaninophiles, that is, lovers of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Undergods<\/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":[3],"tags":[255,28],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-climate","tag-football","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}