{"id":50656,"date":"2019-05-31T07:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50656"},"modified":"2019-05-31T07:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T13:45:15","slug":"50656-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50656","title":{"rendered":"Out of Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Beltane and the Cancer Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night was Gabe&#8217;s continuation. The Denver school system marks the transition from elementary school to middle school, middle school to high school with a continuation ceremony. Continuation is Latinate, ugly, and denies a sense of completion, of finishing. Why not graduation? Or, finished. Or, done and dusted. Or, thank god. Or, anything but continuation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was cake afterwards on the school yard. &#8220;Cake is only for continuators.&#8221; Continuators? Ugh. Graduates. New middle schoolers. Our former students. Completists. Finishers. OK. Curmudgeoning officially over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be the last event at Schwigert Elementary in Stapleton. A rush hour traffic jam through the entire Denver metro has always preceded them. A 45 minute trip last night was 2 hours. Not much way around it without going a couple of hours early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_185335-e1559309647310-1200x1031.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_185335-e1559309647310-1200x1031.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_185335-e1559309647310-420x361.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_185335-e1559309647310-744x639.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_185335-e1559309647310-768x660.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_185335-e1559309647310.jpg 1885w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption>Gabe gets his certificate from his 5th grade teacher<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"2133\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_190819-e1559309837350-1200x2133.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_190819-e1559309837350-1200x2133.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_190819-e1559309837350-420x747.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_190819-e1559309837350-744x1323.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_190819-e1559309837350-768x1365.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption>The continuator and his cake<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190530_190835-e1559310023224-1200x1046.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50659\"\/><figcaption>Continuator, cake, Dad, sister<br><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane and the Cancer Moon Last night was Gabe&#8217;s continuation. The Denver school system marks the transition from elementary school to middle school, middle school to high school with a continuation ceremony. Continuation is Latinate, ugly, and denies a sense of completion, of finishing. Why not graduation? Or, finished. Or, done and dusted. Or, thank &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50656\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out of Elementary<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50656","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=50656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50662,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50656\/revisions\/50662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}