{"id":8147,"date":"2010-10-22T17:47:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T23:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T16:51:21","slug":"on-defining-maturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8147","title":{"rendered":"On Defining Maturity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall\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 Full Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>Three lily beds planted, topped with a serving of tiny yellow daffodil bulbs.\u00a0 I realized today that planting bulbs in the metaphoric equivalent of maturity.\u00a0 Putting lily corms in the ground in autumn to produce flowers in June, July and August of 2011 defines delayed gratification.\u00a0 So.\u00a0 There.\u00a0 In spite of my personal measure of maturity&#8211;did I get a napkin the first time I went through the line&#8211;I seem have passed a different test.\u00a0 Gotta make it before I hit 65.<\/p>\n<p>Kona helped.\u00a0 She chased down marauding chipmunks and rodney danger squirrel.<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s off at work, each evening a chip closer to retirement.\u00a0 I&#8217;m about to head on the treadmill for a late work out.\u00a0 Watching Ghost Writer now.\u00a0 Pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall\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 Full Harvest Moon Three lily beds planted, topped with a serving of tiny yellow daffodil bulbs.\u00a0 I realized today that planting bulbs in the metaphoric equivalent of maturity.\u00a0 Putting lily corms in the ground in autumn to produce flowers in June, July and August of 2011 defines delayed gratification.\u00a0 So.\u00a0 There.\u00a0 In spite of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Defining Maturity<\/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":[60,14,87],"tags":[540],"class_list":["post-8147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-garden","tag-lilies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147","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=8147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36758,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions\/36758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}