{"id":46583,"date":"2018-02-08T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=46583"},"modified":"2018-02-08T08:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:26:01","slug":"in-the-veldt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=46583","title":{"rendered":"In the Veldt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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\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 Imbolc Moon<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46584\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-46584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/africa-bush-lodge-420x279.jpg\" alt=\"bush, South Africa\" width=\"420\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/africa-bush-lodge-420x279.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/africa-bush-lodge.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">bush, South Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brief continuation of the post below. Thinking about destinations and journeys some more. A thought triggered by a BF Skinner example of creativity, &#8220;A chicken is an egg&#8217;s way of making more eggs.&#8221; Perhaps destinations are our way of creating journeys. Perhaps destinations exist to insure that we travel, get out of our comfort zones and investigate ourselves on the road.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s still au courant in physical anthropology but there was a theory that travel in the African bush was responsible for our increase in brain size as a species. When we crossed large open spaces while hunting and gathering, we were vulnerable, a predatory species without the usual predatory equipment of fangs, claws, rippling muscles.<\/p>\n<p>The theory was that to stay alive we had to be very good at noticing movement, noticing danger and that that increased work for the brain. The humans or pre-humans who were best at that task survived and presumably selected for large brains. As a result, some have speculated that our brain works best when we&#8217;re in motion.<\/p>\n<p>Just thinking out loud here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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\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 Imbolc Moon Brief continuation of the post below. Thinking about destinations and journeys some more. A thought triggered by a BF Skinner example of creativity, &#8220;A chicken is an egg&#8217;s way of making more eggs.&#8221; Perhaps destinations are our way of creating journeys. Perhaps destinations exist to insure that we travel, get out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=46583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the Veldt<\/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":[4302,12,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-2","category-travel","category-world-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46583","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=46583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46590,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46583\/revisions\/46590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}