{"id":6645,"date":"2010-06-07T22:21:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T04:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2016-05-15T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T21:10:12","slug":"the-patio-of-the-schwarzwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=6645","title":{"rendered":"The Patio of the Schwarzwald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\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 Waning Planting Moon<\/p>\n<p>The Woolly brethren gathered yet again at the Black Forest, sitting outside near the fountain with the metal sculpture, a twisted geometric of aluminum.\u00a0 Warren, Frank just back from Ireland, Bill, Paul, Tom, Stefan and myself shared the stories and the shorthand that comes from having been together for so long.<\/p>\n<p>When Tom and Paul ordered Erdingers beer, we had a laugh about the restaurant with a rock, a very large rock, in a conspicuous location near the entrance.\u00a0\u00a0 We discovered this restaurant, this rock and Erdinger&#8217;s beer in Hot Springs, South Dakota during our pilgrimage to the Woolly Mammoth site there.\u00a0 It seems the rock just wouldn&#8217;t give way to the folks building the restaurant, so they said the hell with it and built the hotel and restaurant around the rock, leaving about four feet or so of rock exposed through the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Paul has experienced, so far, positive results from his iron chelation and looks appreciably better.\u00a0 Stefan recounted stories from his trip to Arizona to see Taylor and announced that he and Lonnie have purchased or in the process of purchasing land in Peru.\u00a0 Frank had a good trip to Ireland, all but one day without rain, which is unusual.\u00a0 Warren and I talked about his articles on the GAMC mess which has all but defunded health care for the poorest of the poor in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>What was it Humphrey said?\u00a0 You can tell the quality of a society by how it deals with the most disadvantaged?<\/p>\n<p>This gathering of the clan keeps our friendships and our bonds alive.\u00a0 It is important, even essential to our ongoing health as a group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\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 Waning Planting Moon The Woolly brethren gathered yet again at the Black Forest, sitting outside near the fountain with the metal sculpture, a twisted geometric of aluminum.\u00a0 Warren, Frank just back from Ireland, Bill, Paul, Tom, Stefan and myself shared the stories and the shorthand that comes from having been together for so long. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=6645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Patio of the Schwarzwald<\/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":[10],"tags":[340,529,528,1408,1751],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woolly-mammoths","tag-frank","tag-paul","tag-stefan","tag-tom","tag-warren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","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=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41366,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/41366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}