{"id":3251,"date":"2009-08-03T14:33:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T20:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2009-08-03T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T20:33:41","slug":"other-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"Other Drivers"},"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 Waxing Green Corn Moon<\/p>\n<p>Up early.\u00a0 Woke up and couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep, so I fed the dogs, got the paper and made breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>I spent an hour deciding where to put some extra cash among several spots at Vanguard (I chose a T.I.P.S. mutual fund.), then put\u00a0 together a China tour:\u00a0 the Sacred Arts of China.\u00a0 I&#8217;m subbing and wanted to do something I&#8217;d already researched.<\/p>\n<p>Kate and I had our business meeting.\u00a0 More money and calendar stuff.\u00a0 We decided I should get long term care insurance, so I sent off for the application.\u00a0 I also bought an orchard rack to store dried fruits and vegetables in the dry storage area Jon built over his vacation here.<\/p>\n<p>A while back I mentioned passing the deaf driver signing wildly and turning, hands off the wheel, to read the communication from his passenger.\u00a0 A couple of days ago I was on my way into St. Paul; a car in front of me swerved over and back across the center line.\u00a0 I had an opportunity to pass and took it.\u00a0 It was a woman wearing a burka, a narrow angle of vision in the fading twilight.<\/p>\n<p>Today I had a small, bitter cherry from a bush in our new orchard.\u00a0 On another bush across the way, must be different, I picked two (100% of the crop) that were fleshy and sweet.\u00a0 Someday I have to learn the names of all of these plants.<\/p>\n<p>Got my notice of accepted application from the friendly folks at your social security administration.\u00a0 This month on the third Wednesday I&#8217;ll get my first social security direct deposited.\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230;<\/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 Waxing Green Corn Moon Up early.\u00a0 Woke up and couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep, so I fed the dogs, got the paper and made breakfast. I spent an hour deciding where to put some extra cash among several spots at Vanguard (I chose a T.I.P.S. mutual fund.), then put\u00a0 together a China tour:\u00a0 the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Other Drivers<\/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":[60,87,336],"tags":[1750,6,1722],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-garden","category-permaculture","tag-cherries","tag-china","tag-social-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}