{"id":63870,"date":"2026-06-13T14:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T20:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63870"},"modified":"2026-06-13T14:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T20:44:55","slug":"ready-to-rumble-on-the-white-house-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63870","title":{"rendered":"Ready to rumble. On the White House lawn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days post-4 hour infusion. Tara thought I looked better. Didn&#8217;t feel much different. After a call to have my potassium chloride prescription sent, Melissa retrieved it. Any horse would choke on them. I mean, big.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa made chili. Real good chili. Made me feel like it was fall. Pom-poms. Tail gating. Cornbread muffins, too.<\/p>\n<p>Next week Wednesday my second infusion. I&#8217;m in much better shape this time around. Not looking forward to the post-infusion protocols. Who wants to be an agent of potential harm to loved ones?<\/p>\n<p>This is the J. Alfred Prufrock way of life. Instead of coffee spoons, my life measures itself through infusions, scans while nurses come and go, haunted by Michelangelo.<\/p>\n<p>Flag day tomorrow. The Toad Prince&#8217;s birth celebrated by violence and mayhem. I&#8217;d go with prison orange and chains, but that&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n<p>A peace treaty or a ceasefire or an agreement on the steps necessary to get or renew either of them. Yes, says mayhem man. Maybe says agent of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Weather delightful on Shadow Mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days post-4 hour infusion. Tara thought I looked better. Didn&#8217;t feel much different. After a call to have my potassium chloride prescription sent, Melissa retrieved it. Any horse would choke on them. I mean, big. Melissa made chili. Real good chili. Made me feel like it was fall. Pom-poms. Tail gating. Cornbread muffins, too. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63870\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready to rumble. On the White House lawn?<\/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":[4,127,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-health","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63870","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=63870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63873,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63870\/revisions\/63873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}