{"id":3052,"date":"2009-07-11T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T19:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2009-07-11T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T19:39:20","slug":"there-is-one-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3052","title":{"rendered":"There is one ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning\u00a0 Summer Moon<\/p>\n<p>Day 1:\u00a0 the one ring that binds her passes further through Vega&#8217;s digestive track.\u00a0 This evening the hunt for the prize in the Cracker\u00a0 Jack box begins.<\/p>\n<p>Kate and I ate breakfast at IHOP before going to the grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>While at the grocery store we refilled our pantries after the kids visit and found foods for Kate&#8217;s work lunch tomorrow.\u00a0 Kate takes special foods on Sundays that she works.\u00a0 Her mission is to expand the culinary imaginations of her co-workers.\u00a0 By the disappearing food in her basket when she returns home it is clear she&#8217;s achieving her goal.<\/p>\n<p>My first two pre-Raphaelite tours are under my belt.\u00a0 I learned from companions:\u00a0 Joy, Antra, and Allison, who contributed to the tour.\u00a0 Joy convinced me of the utility of a good flashlight.\u00a0 Gotta find mine.\u00a0 The three of them also helped me see that the reason guards admonish me a lot about getting too close to the paintings is that I get too close to the paintings.\u00a0 All three added observations, commentary and good humor.\u00a0 Thanks, gals.<\/p>\n<p>On my tours I tried to take folks on Hunt&#8217;s journey as a person and as an artist, focusing as much on a works biographical locale as its specific art historical significance.\u00a0 Since Hunt had a long spiritual journey that began with an early work,\u00a0 his most famous piece, The Light of the World, and since that journey was a dialogue with 19th century understandings of Christianity, my seminary training helped me.\u00a0 I was comfortable discussing the theological implications of his paintings in a way others might not be.<\/p>\n<p>Both tours were well-received and I felt good about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning\u00a0 Summer Moon Day 1:\u00a0 the one ring that binds her passes further through Vega&#8217;s digestive track.\u00a0 This evening the hunt for the prize in the Cracker\u00a0 Jack box begins. Kate and I ate breakfast at IHOP before going to the grocery store. While at the grocery store we refilled our pantries after the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There is one ring<\/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":[8],"tags":[1623,1420,1653],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-hunt","tag-pre-raphaelite","tag-vega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","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=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}