{"id":690,"date":"2008-06-09T16:07:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T22:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2008-06-09T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T22:07:53","slug":"the-wild-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"The Wild Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>71\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 29.66\u00a0 1pmh ENE dew-point 49\u00a0 Beltane, sunny and warm<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Quarter of the Flower Moon<\/p>\n<p>We have had only 3 days above 80 this year.\u00a0 The weather stays cool, which is fine, but the plants don&#8217;t like it.\u00a0 They grow slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is the Wild Man meeting of the Woolly Mammoths at Charlie Haislet&#8217;s pent-house condo overlooking downtown Minneapolis.\u00a0 Not exactly the abode of a wild man.\u00a0 Still, most of us would have trouble with it, too.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week feels compressed since I leave on Saturday for Maxwell AFB and Gettysburg.\u00a0 It means I&#8217;m on the kind of work attitude I get into before a trip.\u00a0 This time it will last a week.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully this time I head out on Hwy 94 not 35.\u00a0 I will skirt Chicago by heading down the middle of Illinois, then on south, into the\u00a0heat.\u00a0 I can only hope that the hot weather will subside, at least a bit, before I get into Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>71\u00a0 bar steady\u00a0 29.66\u00a0 1pmh ENE dew-point 49\u00a0 Beltane, sunny and warm \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First Quarter of the Flower Moon We have had only 3 days above 80 this year.\u00a0 The weather stays cool, which is fine, but the plants don&#8217;t like it.\u00a0 They grow slowly. Tonight is the Wild Man meeting of the Woolly Mammoths &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=690\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Wild Man<\/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":[12,10],"tags":[4343,4341],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-woolly-mammoths","tag-travel","tag-woolly-mammoths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}