{"id":3263,"date":"2009-08-04T22:57:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T04:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2009-08-04T22:57:34","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T04:57:34","slug":"wish-they-all-could-be-californiawines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Wish They All Could Be California&#8230;Wines"},"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 Waxing Green Corn Moon (99% illuminated)<\/p>\n<p>Kate and I watched Bottle Shock, a movie about the U.S. Bicentennial year taste test between French and American wines.\u00a0 California&#8217;s Napa Valley wines won.\u00a0 The British oenologist who created the test redid it in 2006 anticipating that the French wines would win.\u00a0 They did not.\u00a0 Napa again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit difficult for me to tell whether I don&#8217;t get it because I don&#8217;t drink alcohol, but the whole veneration of vinculture and its products seems overblown.\u00a0 Just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight the almost full Green Corn Moon is a yellow orb hanging high in the southeast sky.\u00a0 It makes the evening enchanted.\u00a0 The Japanese have moon viewing platforms.\u00a0 Seems like a good idea to me.<\/p>\n<p>More medical visits tomorrow with Kate, trying to track down the elusive next and hopefully better treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure whether I wrote anything about the whole Favre who-ha, but here it is:\u00a0 thank god it didn&#8217;t happen.\u00a0 Any superbowl won by the Vikings with Brett Favre at the helm would have tainted the experience and us long suffering Viking&#8217;s fans deserve a clean win, straight up with no cross state retired quarterback in the mix.\u00a0 That said, it does not appear to me that either Tavaris Jackson or Rosenfels have the stuff, but I hope I&#8217;m wrong.<\/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 Waxing Green Corn Moon (99% illuminated) Kate and I watched Bottle Shock, a movie about the U.S. Bicentennial year taste test between French and American wines.\u00a0 California&#8217;s Napa Valley wines won.\u00a0 The British oenologist who created the test redid it in 2006 anticipating that the French wines would win.\u00a0 They did not.\u00a0 Napa again. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wish They All Could Be California&#8230;Wines<\/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":[237,14,754],"tags":[111,115,96],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-sport","tag-kate","tag-moon","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","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=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}