{"id":275,"date":"2008-01-29T09:46:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-01-29T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T15:46:28","slug":"the-scent-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"The Scent of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2\u00a0 56%\u00a0 22%\u00a0 6mph W bar 29.54\u00a0 steep rise windchill-5<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last Quarter of the Winter Moon<\/p>\n<p>Kate brought me a spray of yellow tulips two days ago.\u00a0 They have opened now and have the scent of spring.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re seeking another dog, looking at Irish Wolfhound and\u00a0 Scottish Deerhound rescues on the internet.\u00a0 We won&#8217;t do anything until we get back from Hawai&#8217;i, but both of us have a sense of incompleteness in our family without a big dog.\u00a0 I would like a mix with a breed a bit more long lived, since\u00a0we still grieve the loss of each one of our eight Wolfhounds.\u00a0 Grief underlines the bond developed with these dogs and, in a paradox, draws us back towards them in direct proportion to our sorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Getting ready.\u00a0 I have the portable DVD player, which I&#8217;ve never used, plugged in and charging the battery.\u00a0 I do have a fix it role, but it entails electronics, not internal combustion engines.\u00a0 Those I manage through repair services, but often the electronic stuff I can fix myself.\u00a0 Go figure.\u00a0\u00a0A partial credential for Geekworld.<\/p>\n<p>Sat down the other day and read a Taoism lesson.\u00a0 As I read, I realized a strange feeling had crept over me.\u00a0 It was contentment.\u00a0 In fact, I feel it now.\u00a0 I had, for many years, a knot, a friss\u00f3n of\u00a0unease lodged in the lower left of my gut.\u00a0 Even when I felt otherwise comfortable, a gut check would reveal a free floating angst speaking to me, soma telling psyche all is not yet right.\u00a0 Right now, it&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2\u00a0 56%\u00a0 22%\u00a0 6mph W bar 29.54\u00a0 steep rise windchill-5 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last Quarter of the Winter Moon Kate brought me a spray of yellow tulips two days ago.\u00a0 They have opened now and have the scent of spring. We&#8217;re seeking another dog, looking at Irish Wolfhound and\u00a0 Scottish Deerhound rescues on the internet.\u00a0 We won&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Scent of Spring<\/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":[23,243,13,12],"tags":[4347,271,73],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekworld","category-memories","category-our-land","category-travel","tag-dogs","tag-inner-peace","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}