{"id":3716,"date":"2009-09-19T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2009-09-19T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T13:00:50","slug":"neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3716","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors"},"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\u00a0 New (Blood) Moon<\/p>\n<p>Good fences make good neighbors.\u00a0 Sort of.\u00a0 On the other hand three of our neighbors have stepped up at various points and returned our wayward puppies to us.\u00a0 As a result, we&#8217;ve met folks we didn&#8217;t know like our neighbors to the south and to the southeast.\u00a0 Neighborliness does not have a high value in the &#8216;burbs, at least in those areas where the lot sizes are 2.5 acres and up.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s a shame.\u00a0 It takes events to pull cul de sacites into each other&#8217;s orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, many are better at it than Kate and I are.\u00a0 Both introverts by nature we tend to our knitting when at home, filling up our extrovert basket when we work in the non-home world.<\/p>\n<p>Time to get out there now and finish up the fence before the heat of the day.\u00a0 Yesterday, around noon, the mosquitoes came out and the temperature got to summer levels.\u00a0 Cool weather is best for this kind of work.\u00a0 Sweat draws creatures and debris in close.<\/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\u00a0 New (Blood) Moon Good fences make good neighbors.\u00a0 Sort of.\u00a0 On the other hand three of our neighbors have stepped up at various points and returned our wayward puppies to us.\u00a0 As a result, we&#8217;ve met folks we didn&#8217;t know like our neighbors to the south and to the southeast.\u00a0 Neighborliness does not have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=3716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neighbors<\/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":[56,13],"tags":[1842],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-our-land","tag-electric-fence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","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=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}