{"id":501,"date":"2008-04-19T17:45:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T23:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2008-04-19T17:45:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T23:45:52","slug":"no-matzoh-in-andover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"No Matzoh In Andover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>47\u00a0 bar rises 29.95\u00a0 3mph N dewpoint 40 Spring<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Growing<\/p>\n<p>No matzoh at Festival in Andover.\u00a0 No lamb.\u00a0 The butcher said, &#8220;We only carry it for holidays.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t push it any other time.&#8221;\u00a0 Not many Jews in Andover either, apparently.\u00a0 This is a big one for Jews all over the world, but not big enough to create a market for lamb at the local supermarket.\u00a0 No matzoh cake meal either.\u00a0 All this\u00a0 means a trip to Byerly&#8217;s tomorrow.\u00a0 Plenty of Jews in and around Maple Grove.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all about the market.\u00a0 Plenty of Hindu&#8217;s in Maple Grove, too.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t imagine there are many Parsi here either.\u00a0 Oh, well.\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably fair to say that I&#8217;m one of a handful of the Taoist inclined, too.\u00a0 May be a few Chinese folks and me.<\/p>\n<p>Just finished the Saturday workout.\u00a0 This one&#8217;s a bugger and my muscles can tell they&#8217;ve had hard use.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the only way to make&#8217;em grow and the only\u00a0way to compensate for age related loss of muscle mass.\u00a0 It&#8217;s important, but it doesn&#8217;t make it easy.<\/p>\n<p>The world is a strange, big place.\u00a0 While I did my resistance work, I listened to a program on the evolution of the planet.\u00a0 The irregular catastrophic punctuations in her history gives me pause.\u00a0 The Chixilub meteor, fissure eruptions, super volcanoes, snowball earth, a few ice ages here and there and pretty soon, as Evertt Dirksen used to say, you&#8217;re talking about real extinction events.\u00a0 It may be that we have come on the scene in a period of Pax Terra; but, based on our history as a planet, I&#8217;d say it won&#8217;t last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>47\u00a0 bar rises 29.95\u00a0 3mph N dewpoint 40 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Moon of Growing No matzoh at Festival in Andover.\u00a0 No lamb.\u00a0 The butcher said, &#8220;We only carry it for holidays.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t push it any other time.&#8221;\u00a0 Not many Jews in Andover either, apparently.\u00a0 This is a big one for Jews all over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Matzoh In Andover<\/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":[14,17,9],"tags":[250,21,270],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-great-wheel","category-great-work","tag-earth","tag-faith","tag-ritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}