{"id":3612,"date":"2009-09-08T23:07:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2009-09-09T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T14:44:14","slug":"still-no-rigel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3612","title":{"rendered":"Still No Rigel"},"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 Waning Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>The second night with no Rigel.\u00a0 I took fliers to filling stations, veterinary offices, grocery stores and the local humane society.\u00a0 Tomorrow I plan to distribute a few more at baseball fields, the town rec center, those sorts of places.\u00a0 After that, we call back to various places and wait.<\/p>\n<p>The driveway has a nice fresh black coat on it; we have a woodland edge to balance our orchard and few trees planted out in the prairie grass.\u00a0 My neighbor (not the suicidal one) came over and noted we&#8217;d planted a couple of hawthorns on his property.\u00a0 He said he didn&#8217;t care and I said I didn&#8217;t either.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll have the same affect there and at that point the properties run into each other on an open field.<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s home.\u00a0 She looks better, but still ragged.\u00a0 We see the surgeon on Thursday morning.\u00a0 Could be some big changes here after that.<\/p>\n<p>The second in my series:\u00a0 Liberalism in Our Time has gotten hold of me, it&#8217;s now the filter through which I read articles, think about politics and\u00a0 our common life.\u00a0 I just learned about a guy named Herbert Crowley today.\u00a0 He was the architect (and an architect) of what some call the welfare state.\u00a0 His thought has some interesting resonance for me, since I&#8217;m struggling in this series with my radical critique of liberal thought.\u00a0 When I get to the Future of Liberalism, I&#8217;m going to have come down somewhere on that question, which I&#8217;ve\u00a0 sort of neatly side-stepped so far.<\/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 Waning Harvest Moon The second night with no Rigel.\u00a0 I took fliers to filling stations, veterinary offices, grocery stores and the local humane society.\u00a0 Tomorrow I plan to distribute a few more at baseball fields, the town rec center, those sorts of places.\u00a0 After that, we call back to various places and wait. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3612\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still No Rigel<\/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":[56,14,13,336,100],"tags":[111,1817,1652],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-our-land","category-permaculture","category-politics","tag-kate","tag-liberalism-in-our-time","tag-rigel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","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=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}