{"id":3477,"date":"2009-08-26T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T23:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2009-08-26T17:55:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T23:55:56","slug":"barriers-and-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"Barriers and Transitions"},"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 Waxing Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>The day so far.\u00a0 Bought 55 granite blocks to use in constructing barriers to the dogs.\u00a0 Bought 10 straw bales to reinforce a barrier to the dogs.\u00a0 Do you see a pattern?<\/p>\n<p>A nap, then a workout and some Sierra Club work.\u00a0 The day has sped past with work and play, now winding down toward the evening when I sit with the dogs, read or watch television.\u00a0 Eat supper.<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s in a definite transition mode this year, perhaps even in the next few months.\u00a0 The pain causes her increasing difficulty, sometimes she spends her non-work hours recovering from work.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 Not a situation that can go on forever.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbor whom I have mentioned in the past, though, has bigger issues.\u00a0 His mental decompensation seems to track with his physical.\u00a0 He grabbed his daughter&#8217;s arm and bit her.\u00a0 His wife had to call the police to come take him to a psych ward.\u00a0 He returns home tomorrow with nothing different.\u00a0 A sad situation.<\/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 Waxing Harvest Moon The day so far.\u00a0 Bought 55 granite blocks to use in constructing barriers to the dogs.\u00a0 Bought 10 straw bales to reinforce a barrier to the dogs.\u00a0 Do you see a pattern? A nap, then a workout and some Sierra Club work.\u00a0 The day has sped past with work and play, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barriers and Transitions<\/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":[60,56,65,11],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-dogs","category-family","category-friends","tag-kate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","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=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}