{"id":25452,"date":"2014-04-09T07:29:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25452"},"modified":"2016-04-29T16:57:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T22:57:06","slug":"the-wolf-came-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25452","title":{"rendered":"The Wolf Came Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \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 Bee Hiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>The sun is as high in the sky now as it is at Labor Day. \u00a0That means warmth is coming. Today we&#8217;re supposed to hit 70. \u00a0Then, maybe get some snow on Sunday. \u00a0Back and forth. With the sun high, the snow from winter will be gone by then, except for those heroic dirty mountains that rose up in large parking lots. \u00a0I remember a few years back when they hung on until well into May.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs heard something this morning around 2:30. \u00a0And set to howling and barking to get at it. \u00a0Kate finally got up and let them out. \u00a0She later heard a high pitched scream and a while after that the dogs retching. \u00a0Whatever it was, they caught it. \u00a0She also said the owl was in fact hooting last night. \u00a0It was, however, quiet when I wrote the post below this one.<\/p>\n<p>Not often these days, but on occasion, we get reminded that these gentle loving creatures remain red in tooth and claw. \u00a0Underneath that indoor sweetness lie genes borne of wolves, most often not aroused, but last night. \u00a0The wolf came out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \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 Bee Hiving Moon The sun is as high in the sky now as it is at Labor Day. \u00a0That means warmth is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25452\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Wolf Came Out<\/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":[56,87,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-garden","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452","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=25452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35458,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452\/revisions\/35458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}