{"id":45166,"date":"2017-08-17T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=45166"},"modified":"2017-08-17T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T13:26:09","slug":"mountain-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=45166","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Spirits"},"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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Kate&#8217;s Moon<\/p>\n<p>On Samain of 2014 I came up here to Shadow Mountain for the closing on our home. In the backyard of our new home three mule deer bucks greeted me. They were curious about me and I about them. We stood with each other for some time. The mountains had sent three spirits to welcome me.<\/p>\n<p>They returned yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-45160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172230-e1502975714693-420x548.jpg\" alt=\"20170814_172230\" width=\"420\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172230-e1502975714693-420x548.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172230-e1502975714693-744x971.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172230-e1502975714693-768x1002.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172230-e1502975714693-1200x1565.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-45161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172257-e1502975853770-420x480.jpg\" alt=\"20170814_172257\" width=\"420\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172257-e1502975853770-420x480.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172257-e1502975853770-744x850.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172257-e1502975853770-768x878.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172257-e1502975853770-1200x1372.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-45167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172305-e1502976294715-420x373.jpg\" alt=\"20170814_172305\" width=\"420\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172305-e1502976294715-420x373.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172305-e1502976294715-744x660.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172305-e1502976294715-768x682.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172305-e1502976294715-1200x1065.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170814_172305-e1502976294715.jpg 1297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Kate&#8217;s Moon On Samain of 2014 I came up here to Shadow Mountain for the closing on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=45166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mountain Spirits<\/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":[14,17,4314,4312,3907,4317,3936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-great-wheel","category-jefferson-county","category-mountains-2","category-reimagining-faith","category-shadow-mountain","category-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45166","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=45166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45168,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45166\/revisions\/45168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}