{"id":64204,"date":"2026-10-30T07:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64204"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:42:03","slug":"day-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64204","title":{"rendered":"Day 2.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2.5 of three. Shabbat shalom.<\/p>\n<p>Writing. Eating. Sleeping. Reading. Watching TV. Not a lot different from my usual days except: no Shadow. No leaving #308. People talk to me from the door. Meals show up three times a day. Also, much ice water.\u00a0The nights have been cool enough for good sleeping. It&#8217;s been sunny. Not much of a burden-this radiation granted retreat.<\/p>\n<p>What can&#8217;t be seen or felt. Tiny prostate cancer seeking nuclear warheads coursing through my bloodstream. I&#8217;ll not know their effectiveness until my next PET scan. Probably after the third infusion.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow will return a week from today. She&#8217;s sleeping on a doggie bed at Camp Ginny and Janice. She shredded the first two I got her. Stopped buying beds. May try again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited (and anxious) about Tuesday. May it be the beginning of the end. We&#8217;ve had barbarians in D.C. for way too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2.5 of three. Shabbat shalom. Writing. Eating. Sleeping. Reading. Watching TV. Not a lot different from my usual days except: no Shadow. No leaving #308. People talk to me from the door. Meals show up three times a day. Also, much ice water.\u00a0The nights have been cool enough for good sleeping. It&#8217;s been sunny. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64204\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 2.5<\/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":[56,4421,11,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-elk-run","category-friends","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64204","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=64204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64207,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64204\/revisions\/64207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}