{"id":5867,"date":"2010-03-31T09:28:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2016-05-03T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T21:50:54","slug":"a-traitorous-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5867","title":{"rendered":"A Traitorous Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awakening Moon (the moon phase is now available on this page elsewhere)<\/p>\n<p>I saw an outdoor digital thermometer yesterday, on some bank, that read 76.\u00a0 76.\u00a0 We have 76 predicted for a high today, too.\u00a0 76.\u00a0 We have the moist, earthy smell and approximate temperature of Hawai&#8217;i. 76.<\/p>\n<p>(Molokini on a day when the temperature was 76.\u00a0 High yesterday in Princeville was 75.)<\/p>\n<p>A traitorous thought crossed my mind yesterday as I rode along with the window down, taking deep breaths of the soil laden scents.\u00a0 This is pretty nice.\u00a0 Maybe this could happen early like this every year.\u00a0 Even more traitorous.\u00a0 I tried to remember the cold, the bleak midwinter and I could not recall why I liked it so much.\u00a0 Then again.\u00a0 This may be, probably is, living in the now.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nice when the temperature is moderate, the air moist and the sky blue.\u00a0 Just like it&#8217;s nice when the sky is crystalline, the earth white and the temperature well below zero.<\/p>\n<p>Today though whatever the outside world has to offer my head will be plunked firmly back in the days of Augustus, Ovid and Caesar.\u00a0 Today, Wheelock Ch. 10, 4th declension verbs and -io verbs of the 3rd declension.\u00a0 Vale!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awakening Moon (the moon phase is now available on this page elsewhere) I saw an outdoor digital thermometer yesterday, on some bank, that read 76.\u00a0 76.\u00a0 We have 76 predicted for a high today, too.\u00a0 76.\u00a0 We have the moist, earthy smell and approximate temperature of Hawai&#8217;i. 76. (Molokini on a day when the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Traitorous Thought<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867","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=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37009,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions\/37009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}