{"id":7799,"date":"2010-09-19T08:09:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2016-05-15T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:06:47","slug":"going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7799","title":{"rendered":"Going Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Back To School Moon<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well.\u00a0 It seems the bug has won.\u00a0 A cold.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 After two years of relative health, I&#8217;ve had three colds in as many months.<\/p>\n<p>My 45th high school reunion, for which I purchased tickets and made hotel reservations a month ago, has shifted a bit.\u00a0 Early notices said October 2nd, but the bit about homecoming, it turns out now, falls on Friday, October 1st.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll change my plans if I can since riding on the float with the other members of my class was part of the attraction for me.<\/p>\n<p>At the seminary last Thursday night I walked past the Steckel Learning Center to get to the new chapel.\u00a0 Earlier that day I had seen Clyde Steckel, after whom the seminary named it.\u00a0 Clyde taught psychology and pastoral counseling.\u00a0 He&#8217;s in the junior docent class that is in training now.\u00a0 We chatted a bit after the docent luncheon.\u00a0 Turns out he was in Anderson, Indiana, his home, for his high school reunion just last month.\u00a0 I&#8217;d forgotten he was from Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>His dad worked at Delco Remy and thought, Clyde said, &#8220;That it would go on forever.&#8221;\u00a0 Delco made starters and batteries for all the GM cars.\u00a0 In the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s Delco and Guide Lamp employed around 25,000 people working 3 shifts.\u00a0 Now they&#8217;re both gone.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of chores to get done here before I go, but I have to go into St. Paul right now to hear Leslie preach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Back To School Moon Ah, well.\u00a0 It seems the bug has won.\u00a0 A cold.\u00a0 Again.\u00a0 After two years of relative health, I&#8217;ve had three colds in as many months. My 45th high school reunion, for which I purchased tickets and made hotel reservations a month ago, has shifted a bit.\u00a0 Early notices said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going Home<\/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":[60,243,12],"tags":[244,2787,1232],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-memories","category-travel","tag-alexandria","tag-high-school","tag-seminary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","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=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41206,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/41206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}