{"id":5594,"date":"2010-02-28T18:18:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T00:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2016-05-16T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:02:27","slug":"food-and-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5594","title":{"rendered":"Food and Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Wild Moon<\/p>\n<p>There and back.\u00a0 To the grocery store.\u00a0 Where, as I wandered the aisles, I got a feeling of wanting to eat a better diet.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 This is not new.\u00a0 It comes and goes.\u00a0 Sometimes I eat great, other times I just eat.\u00a0 Today I picked up some Cara Cara Navel Oranges.\u00a0 I discovered them last week by accident. Boy are they good.\u00a0 They look sort of like grapefruit (big chunks in the pieces), but taste almost like sweet tangerines.<\/p>\n<p>On the way and back I listened to a lecture on Aristotle.\u00a0 I know, I said I was fed up with this stuff, but, apparently not. Aristotle was hard for me when I studied him back in 1965.\u00a0 He seems clearer to me now, more reachable.\u00a0 His stuff makes more sense, but it isn&#8217;t as beautiful as Plato, nor as thought provoking.\u00a0 At least to me.<\/p>\n<p>The US lost to Canada in the gold medal hockey game.\u00a0 Good.\u00a0 When we rack up too many medals in either the summer or winter olympics, I don&#8217;t think it does our international reputation any favors.\u00a0 Losing a few big ones, while devastating to the individual athletes, or team in hockey&#8217;s case, perhaps, the resulting good will is better for us.\u00a0 Still, I&#8217;m proud we did well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Wild Moon There and back.\u00a0 To the grocery store.\u00a0 Where, as I wandered the aisles, I got a feeling of wanting to eat a better diet.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 This is not new.\u00a0 It comes and goes.\u00a0 Sometimes I eat great, other times I just eat.\u00a0 Today I picked up some Cara Cara Navel Oranges.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Food and Philosophy<\/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":[4,566,754],"tags":[2254,287,2255],"class_list":["post-5594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-humanities","category-sport","tag-aristotle","tag-food","tag-winter-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594","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=5594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41586,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5594\/revisions\/41586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}