{"id":5152,"date":"2010-01-11T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2016-05-03T16:51:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:51:27","slug":"busy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5152","title":{"rendered":"Busy Day"},"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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of Long Nights<\/p>\n<p>Final travel arrangements for Denver finished.\u00a0 Car.\u00a0 Shuttle reservation.<\/p>\n<p>Business meeting this morning.\u00a0 Money fine.\u00a0 Next week for Kate planned. Looks good.<\/p>\n<p>Slept badly last night, so a long and hard nap this afternoon.\u00a0 Got up, wrote for two hours.\u00a0 Worked out, watched a bit of TV.\u00a0 Read.<\/p>\n<p>Vega and Rigel killed a rabbit and a squirrel this morning.\u00a0 Doggy pride in a kill matures them.\u00a0 Vega guarded both critters with careful attentiveness.\u00a0 Sitting in the path that led to the rabbit.\u00a0 She needed no barking or growling.\u00a0 Her presence was confident and brooked no intervention.\u00a0 This from the dog who usually occupies low spot on the canine totem pole here.<\/p>\n<p>Both Vega and Rigel went round with their tails held high, a bit of a swagger.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a dog, yes I am, and I can&#8217;t help but being a dog.\u00a0 Yup Yup.<\/p>\n<p>When I come upstairs after exercise, Vega rolls over and thumps her tail.\u00a0 She puts her paws around my neck, licks my hand and thumps her tail some more.<\/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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of Long Nights Final travel arrangements for Denver finished.\u00a0 Car.\u00a0 Shuttle reservation. Business meeting this morning.\u00a0 Money fine.\u00a0 Next week for Kate planned. Looks good. Slept badly last night, so a long and hard nap this afternoon.\u00a0 Got up, wrote for two hours.\u00a0 Worked out, watched a bit of TV.\u00a0 Read. Vega &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Busy Day<\/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":[56,12],"tags":[1652,1653],"class_list":["post-5152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-travel","tag-rigel","tag-vega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152","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=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37086,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions\/37086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}