{"id":30996,"date":"2015-05-12T05:35:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=30996"},"modified":"2015-05-12T05:35:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:35:47","slug":"solar-snowshovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=30996","title":{"rendered":"Solar Snowshovel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane \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 \u00a0 \u00a0Beltane Moon<\/p>\n<p>Geologist Tom Zeiner from the Colorado Native Plant class calls it the &#8220;solar snowshovel.&#8221; Without spending a dime or even removing the snowblower from the garage,\u00a0the weekend&#8217;s snow has melted and transpired from the driveway. This will continue to amaze me for some time. What a treat.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast has rain in all of the next ten days save 2. That means more water going downhill added to the already high water levels. But, no snow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Beltane Moon Geologist Tom Zeiner from the Colorado Native Plant class calls it the &#8220;solar snowshovel.&#8221; Without spending a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=30996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Solar Snowshovel<\/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":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4312,4317,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-mountains-2","category-shadow-mountain","category-weather-climate","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30996","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=30996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30997,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30996\/revisions\/30997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}