{"id":3553,"date":"2009-09-03T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T03:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2009-09-03T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T03:44:07","slug":"night-cool-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3553","title":{"rendered":"Night, Cool Night"},"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 Full Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>Cool nights and perfect days, high 60&#8217;s to 70.\u00a0 Blue sky with puffy clouds.\u00a0 The occasional cirrus formation, mare&#8217;s tails prancing in from the north.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clear air.\u00a0\u00a0 Bright stars and a moon full enough to navigate a country road without headlights.<\/p>\n<p>This is the time of year, in the midst of the harvest, when the growing season pretty much comes to a stop here in the northern central U.S.\u00a0 Garden clean up lies not far ahead, digging potatoes and pulling carrots, too.\u00a0 Parsnip and garlic will sleep over the winter in their beds.\u00a0 A few beets left to pull, a lot of squash still maturing and the beans have a bit more time before the pods dry up.<\/p>\n<p>Life changes with the seasons.\u00a0 Just how is not always predictable, but cooler weather inspires different activities than the heat of\u00a0 mid-summer.\u00a0 Snow and bitter cold different activities again.\u00a0 You either enjoy these changes or you move somewhere else.<\/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 Full Harvest Moon Cool nights and perfect days, high 60&#8217;s to 70.\u00a0 Blue sky with puffy clouds.\u00a0 The occasional cirrus formation, mare&#8217;s tails prancing in from the north.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clear air.\u00a0\u00a0 Bright stars and a moon full enough to navigate a country road without headlights. This is the time of year, in the midst of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Night, Cool Night<\/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":[87,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-great-wheel","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","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=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}