{"id":64175,"date":"2026-10-18T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64175"},"modified":"2026-10-18T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:17:14","slug":"64175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64175","title":{"rendered":"An Approval I Care About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news. My LTC claim. A thick letter from Allianz. Your claim? Approved. Big news because it should pay most, if not all, of my Elk Run bill. It&#8217;s a big one.<\/p>\n<p>When the house sells, I will fold up that phase of my life and put it in a lower dresser drawer. Maybe take it out on holidays.<\/p>\n<p>With those complex hangovers from my Shadow Mountain life resolved I can concentrate on organizing my books. Will take a look at my last three novels Missing, Jennie&#8217;s Dead, and Superior Wolf. The first draft of Jennie&#8217;s Dead, three quarters finished, makes sense as a place to start.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow went to play with Annie. An afternoon of running, running, running.<\/p>\n<p>The sun has begun to disappear behind the spinning earth. Bergen Mountain slopes toward Elk Meadow. Grasses move in a gentle wind. I&#8217;ll finish this and in about a half an hour walk to the elevator and go to dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news. My LTC claim. A thick letter from Allianz. Your claim? Approved. Big news because it should pay most, if not all, of my Elk Run bill. It&#8217;s a big one. When the house sells, I will fold up that phase of my life and put it in a lower dresser drawer. Maybe take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64175\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Approval I Care About<\/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":[56,4421,4312,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-elk-run","category-mountains-2","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64175","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=64175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64177,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64175\/revisions\/64177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}