{"id":47549,"date":"2018-05-23T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=47549"},"modified":"2018-05-23T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T12:08:07","slug":"little-girl-big-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=47549","title":{"rendered":"Little Girl, Big Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sumi-e Moon<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ruth-and-hair330.jpg\" alt=\"ruth-and-hair330\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>This little person with the staticky blond hair made supper yesterday, a complicated one. Lamb shawarma, black tie challah and toffee. Kate added a wonderful salad in the Middle Eastern style. Gabe and Jon drove up from Denver, in horrendous rush hour traffic (redundant adjective, I know) for the meal. &#8220;Gabe had better like this since we spent all day making it,&#8221; she said. He did.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-47551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180522_174843-e1527076645179-420x542.jpg\" alt=\"20180522_174843\" width=\"194\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180522_174843-e1527076645179-420x542.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180522_174843-e1527076645179-744x961.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180522_174843-e1527076645179-768x992.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180522_174843-e1527076645179-1200x1550.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>Monday and Tuesday were Ruth&#8217;s first two days out of school and we were lucky to have her spend them with us. She cooked, fed the dogs, came up to the loft, &#8220;Hi. How ya&#8217; doin&#8217;?&#8221; I served as her sous chef on the shawarma and Kate did likewise on the challah, but she picked the recipes and guided the action. And the shawarma was good. The challah, too. This is called Black Tie Challah.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-47552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180422_182930-e1527077073504-420x569.jpg\" alt=\"20180422_182930\" width=\"184\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180422_182930-e1527077073504-420x569.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180422_182930-e1527077073504-744x1008.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180422_182930-e1527077073504-768x1041.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180422_182930-e1527077073504-1200x1626.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/>She is, though, twelve, still learning to process her emotions. Hard.<\/p>\n<p>This morning she&#8217;s off to the YMCA camp in Estes Park, the town closest to Rocky Mountain National Park. She told me she&#8217;s switched her preferred college now from M.I.T. to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.risd.edu\/\">Rhode Island School of Art and Design<\/a>. Only the preeminent art school in the U.S. She aims high.<\/p>\n<p>As we were cooking together yesterday, she said, &#8220;I&#8217;m an artist. That sort of means I&#8217;m a perfectionist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sumi-e Moon This little person with the staticky blond hair made supper yesterday, a complicated one. Lamb shawarma, black tie challah and toffee. Kate added a wonderful salad in the Middle Eastern style. Gabe and Jon drove up from Denver, in horrendous rush hour traffic (redundant adjective, I know) for the meal. &#8220;Gabe had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=47549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little Girl, Big Girl<\/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":[8,4,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cooking","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47549","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=47549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47553,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47549\/revisions\/47553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}