{"id":27509,"date":"2014-08-16T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=27509"},"modified":"2014-08-16T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T20:01:29","slug":"nowthen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=27509","title":{"rendered":"Nowthen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lughnasa Moon<\/p>\n<p>Well. While at Osaka, our local sushi joint, Kate noticed a TV featuring nude bowlers. No, I don&#8217;t know why, but Kate went on to point the relation between sushi, raw fish, and nude bowlers, human flesh in the raw. There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than can be counted for in your philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Before this nude experience, we attended, for the second year, the Nowthen Threshing Show. Here are a few photographs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0512.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0512-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0512\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0512-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0512-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steam engine power take off running a rip saw and a planer at a temporary sawmill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0520.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0520-579x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0520\" width=\"579\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0520-579x1024.jpg 579w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0520-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0520.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An old filling station. Compare to the Edward Hopper below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gas-hopper.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gas-hopper-1024x703.jpg\" alt=\"gas  hopper\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gas-hopper-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gas-hopper-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gas-hopper.jpg 2031w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0536_BURST001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0536_BURST001-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0536_BURST001\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0536_BURST001-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0536_BURST001-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The theme this year was the world of steam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0526.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27514\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0526-579x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0526\" width=\"579\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0526-579x1024.jpg 579w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0526-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0526.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We watched the engineers bring this five\u00a0piston diesel engine to life. It has a huge armature just out of the picture to the left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0522.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0522-579x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0522\" width=\"579\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0522-579x1024.jpg 579w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0522-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMAG0522.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was a surprise, but an artful one. Kate and her much admired red glasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Lughnasa Moon Well. While at Osaka, our local sushi joint, Kate noticed a TV featuring nude bowlers. No, I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=27509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nowthen<\/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":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-anoka-county","category-memories","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509","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=27509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27518,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions\/27518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}