{"id":6711,"date":"2010-06-13T16:20:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T22:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2010-06-13T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T22:20:34","slug":"a-pruning-dervish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=6711","title":{"rendered":"A Pruning Dervish"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 New Moon (Hungry Ghost)<\/p>\n

Kate became a pruning dervish this morning, clearing a pathway to our front door, giving the draping yew a\"pruned-old-salvia\" hair-cut and generally wrecking havoc with weeds and overgrown shrubs.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Now I’m moving the detritus to a resting place where the grape vines, columbine and raspberries will grow over it and make it a productive part of our property instead of a house-hider.<\/p>\n

I have gotten through the perfect passive system for all verbs, interrogative pronouns, interrogative adjectives and a new\u00a0 vocabulary.\u00a0 Later on we’re going to skype with the kids and the grandkids.\u00a0 How Sunday’s going around here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 New Moon (Hungry Ghost) Kate became a pruning dervish this morning, clearing a pathway to our front door, giving the draping yew a hair-cut and generally wrecking havoc with weeds and overgrown shrubs.\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Now I’m moving the detritus to a resting place where the grape vines, columbine and raspberries will grow over it … Continue reading A Pruning Dervish<\/span> →<\/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":[65,87,566],"tags":[111,4377,2504],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-garden","category-humanities","tag-kate","tag-latin","tag-pruning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","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=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6713,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}