{"id":2689,"date":"2009-05-13T22:44:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T04:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2009-05-14T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T15:53:07","slug":"ancientrail-rides-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":"Ancientrails Rides The Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Flower Moon<\/p>\n<p>Ancientrails will hit the road on Friday.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure about wireless connections while I&#8217;m on the train, though I&#8217;m guessing they exist in the First Class lounges where I&#8217;ll wait between trains.\u00a0 At any rate, I may be down for a day or two, but I&#8217;ll start posting for sure in Hilton Head on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s strange, doing so much earth connected work: planting, moving daylilies, tending bees then getting on a train and riding away from it all for 18 days.\u00a0\u00a0 Travel during the growing season has definite windows and I&#8217;m just touching one, the average day of the last frost in our area, May 15th.\u00a0 That&#8217;s this Friday.\u00a0 That means I&#8217;ve planted a tiny bit ahead of the average date, but the overall weather pattern looked favorable.<\/p>\n<p>I do have other planting that needs to get done, but I can&#8217;t do it until our number of available beds increases with the work of Ecological Gardens that can not happen until May 26th and May 27th.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be back shortly after that, so I&#8217;m not missing much.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hiring some neighborhood help with weeding.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the primary challenge while we&#8217;re gone, not letting the weeds get ahead of the vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>Travel is a part of my Self, a way I work on who I am and what I mean.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been that way for so long that I can&#8217;t recall which came first, travel or working on who I am.\u00a0 It may be that the journey toward Selfhood never ends, or it may end with definite suddenness at death, but in either case it lasts a lifetime at least.\u00a0 We need all the tools available to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Flower Moon Ancientrails will hit the road on Friday.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure about wireless connections while I&#8217;m on the train, though I&#8217;m guessing they exist in the First Class lounges where I&#8217;ll wait between trains.\u00a0 At any rate, I may be down for a day or two, but I&#8217;ll start posting for sure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancientrails Rides The Rails<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","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=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}