{"id":2540,"date":"2009-04-30T23:11:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T05:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2009-04-30T23:11:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T05:11:54","slug":"beltane-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"Beltane Has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Flower Moon<\/p>\n<p>As is the case with all Celtic holidays Beltane began at sundown.\u00a0 Over the years that I have kept the Celtic calendar, now 14 years at least, Beltane signals a real shift from the getting going of spring to the active growth of summer.\u00a0 Some years that&#8217;s more obvious than others and this year the change has been slower than the recent past, yet the emergence of the daffodils, tulips, garlic and the blooming of our magnolia all point toward summer.<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s back from work with new rules for influenza A(H1N1) novel.\u00a0 They had a sick hallway at the Coon Rapids clinic tonight and they were, again, swamped by persons concerned about the flu.\u00a0 She said a case has been reported at HCMC.\u00a0 Tomorrow, however, her attention moves from pandemic to garage sale, the sort of odd shifts we all make between our work and domestic lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Flower Moon As is the case with all Celtic holidays Beltane began at sundown.\u00a0 Over the years that I have kept the Celtic calendar, now 14 years at least, Beltane signals a real shift from the getting going of spring to the active growth of summer.\u00a0 Some years that&#8217;s more obvious than others &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beltane Has Begun<\/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":[65,17,127,18],"tags":[424,111,1581],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-great-wheel","category-health","category-holidays","tag-beltane","tag-kate","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}