{"id":64138,"date":"2026-10-02T07:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64138"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:05:33","slug":"the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64138","title":{"rendered":"The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a kerfuffle right now over Shadow. Nashay, the caregiver who described the dangers of the dark-bears, racoons, rabid foxes-with such quavery passion refused to take Shadow out. l protested. She said nobody would take her out. Devolved into her &#8220;calling her supervisor.&#8221; Who has not showed up. Gonna be a bigger issue as we move toward Samain, then the Winter Solstice.<\/p>\n<p>Telehealth call has me a little anxious. How far has my cancer advanced? Could be minimal; could be a lot. Affects my longevity.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch with Ginny and Janice and two of their friends from Milwaukee. One of them, Janice&#8217;s former student at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, has become a well-known costume designer. Looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling a little down today. Nashay, whom I dislike. The only staff person here I don&#8217;t like. Since she&#8217;s my assigned caregiver on certain nights&#8230; Then, come to Jesus time about cancer. As well as selling my house and still in the midst of unpacking, settling in.\u00a0 A lot. Glad I&#8217;m talking to Tom today and having lunch out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of a kerfuffle right now over Shadow. Nashay, the caregiver who described the dangers of the dark-bears, racoons, rabid foxes-with such quavery passion refused to take Shadow out. l protested. She said nobody would take her out. Devolved into her &#8220;calling her supervisor.&#8221; Who has not showed up. Gonna be a bigger issue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64138\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dark<\/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":[4416,56,4421,11,127,4317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer","category-dogs","category-elk-run","category-friends","category-health","category-shadow-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138","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=64138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64139,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64138\/revisions\/64139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}