{"id":33178,"date":"2015-11-07T07:59:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T13:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=33178"},"modified":"2015-11-07T07:59:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T13:59:35","slug":"down-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=33178","title":{"rendered":"Down the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \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 Moon of the First Snow<\/p>\n<p>Date night. Kate and I found a new restaurant, The Bistro. It&#8217;s between Conifer and Evergreen on Hwy. 73. Excellent food, a piano man and a wonderful dining companion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151106_174457.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-33179\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151106_174457-420x236.jpg\" alt=\"20151106_174457\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151106_174457-420x236.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151106_174457-744x419.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151106_174457-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a>We both agreed last night that our move here has been good. Black Mountain Drive fits our lives extremely well. The surrounding geography is varied and beautiful. We&#8217;re closer to the grandkids.<\/p>\n<p>Getting older has been wonderful. Sure, there&#8217;s the pain and the cancer, yes, but the joy of time together, time we can order as we wish, is delightful. We&#8217;re living into our highest and best selves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain \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 Moon of the First Snow Date night. Kate and I found a new restaurant, The Bistro. It&#8217;s between Conifer and Evergreen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=33178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Down the Mountain<\/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":[65,4314,4312,3996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-jefferson-county","category-mountains-2","category-third-phase-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178","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=33178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33180,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33178\/revisions\/33180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}