{"id":5190,"date":"2010-01-17T18:04:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T00:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2016-05-03T16:47:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:47:59","slug":"going-to-the-big-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5190","title":{"rendered":"going to the big easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Cold Moon<\/p>\n<p>Day III in Denver.\u00a0 Temps still high.<\/p>\n<p>Over to Jon and Jen&#8217;s to watch the Vikes play Cowboys.\u00a0 As Ruth said while we were on the bus going to the stockshow, &#8220;Yippee, Yi, Yeah.&#8221;\u00a0 That was the Viking&#8217;s team I watched the early in the season. They looked fresh, the defense tackled, the pass rush caused at least three fumbles not to mention hurry-ups, sacks, and blocked passes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a believer that this team, when they come to play, can beat anybody in the NFL.\u00a0 I think we&#8217;re a particularly good matchup against New Orleans and the Colts so I&#8217;m expecting a great finish this year. Yes, I had my doubts after Carolina and Arizona, but the last half of the Chicago game and the whole Giants game showed what we had.\u00a0 So did this one today.<\/p>\n<p>In 30 minutes the gang and I go to see the PRCA rodeo.\u00a0 This is the rodeo big leagues.\u00a0 To the best of my knowledge I&#8217;ve never seen a rodeo, though I have seen a bullfight.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Odegard sent me a shot of Halema\u02bbuma\u02bbu erupting.\u00a0 This is the current home of Pe&#8217;le and she is definitely in the house.\u00a0 On several occasions I&#8217;ve walked over the edge of this pit and thought about gods and goddesses, standing beside offerings left by native Hawai&#8217;ians and often choking from the sulfurous gases emitted.\u00a0 She can fill the whole caldera if she gets on a tear and who knows, this might be one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Cold Moon Day III in Denver.\u00a0 Temps still high. Over to Jon and Jen&#8217;s to watch the Vikes play Cowboys.\u00a0 As Ruth said while we were on the bus going to the stockshow, &#8220;Yippee, Yi, Yeah.&#8221;\u00a0 That was the Viking&#8217;s team I watched the early in the season. They looked fresh, the defense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">going to the big easy<\/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":[754,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190","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=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37074,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/37074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}