{"id":5149,"date":"2010-01-10T23:06:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T05:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2010-01-10T23:06:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T05:06:39","slug":"vikes-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5149","title":{"rendered":"Vikes Still Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of Long Nights<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now week 2 of the NFL playoff season and the Vikes are still in it.\u00a0 Of course, they backed into a bye for this weekend as number 2 seed in the NFC.\u00a0 Next week we&#8217;ll play the Dallas Cowboys.\u00a0 The Cowboys have had a hot quarterback, a surging defense and late season mo&#8217;.\u00a0 We have one game momentum from thrashing the hapless second half of the season Giants.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know the teams at the matchup level, nor do I pretend to understand the fickle notion of momentum.\u00a0 I know, in a game when we click on all cylinders, we can play with anybody.\u00a0 I hope we have three such games left.<\/p>\n<p>In this next week there is this and that to get done before I leave for Denver and the Great Western Stock Show.\u00a0 This:\u00a0 make supershuttle reservations and rent a car, that:\u00a0 buy light bulbs, a surge protector, new watch batteries.\u00a0 Get groceries and such squared away for Kate while I&#8217;m gone.\u00a0 That kind of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of Long Nights It&#8217;s now week 2 of the NFL playoff season and the Vikes are still in it.\u00a0 Of course, they backed into a bye for this weekend as number 2 seed in the NFC.\u00a0 Next week we&#8217;ll play the Dallas Cowboys.\u00a0 The Cowboys have had a hot quarterback, a surging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vikes Still Alive<\/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":[754],"tags":[2169,96],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","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=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5150,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}