{"id":8242,"date":"2010-11-01T20:13:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T02:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8242"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:44:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T16:44:34","slug":"friends-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8242","title":{"rendered":"Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain\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 Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>Talking with the woollies at the Black Forest.\u00a0 Scott, Frank, Warren, Stefan.\u00a0 Eating here at this lasting monument to <em>Gem\u00fctlichkeit <\/em>we lived it.\u00a0 Sharing with each other in our cozy, intimate way, a way borne of decades now together.\u00a0 My claustrophobia, anothers workshop on codependence, Frank&#8217;s tooth, Scott&#8217;s restructuring of his hours at work, Warren&#8217;s cold.\u00a0 All of these and the usual commentary on the upcoming election, the Vikings and the waiver of Randy Moss.\u00a0 Friends eating together, putting another layer of mortar on the linkages among us.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another trip through the night from downtown Minneapolis to the exurbs, from bright lights and people jaywalking, biking, loitering to the dark drive north of Coon Creek Road, past the eutrophying Round Lake and the vast peat bog across the road from it, the basis for Field&#8217;s large truck farm.<\/p>\n<p>Now home, letting the dogs out, a note here, then upstairs to read, watch TV, relax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain\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 Harvest Moon Talking with the woollies at the Black Forest.\u00a0 Scott, Frank, Warren, Stefan.\u00a0 Eating here at this lasting monument to Gem\u00fctlichkeit we lived it.\u00a0 Sharing with each other in our cozy, intimate way, a way borne of decades now together.\u00a0 My claustrophobia, anothers workshop on codependence, Frank&#8217;s tooth, Scott&#8217;s restructuring of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friends<\/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":[14,11,10],"tags":[340,678,528,1751],"class_list":["post-8242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-and-spirituality","category-friends","category-woolly-mammoths","tag-frank","tag-scott","tag-stefan","tag-warren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","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=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36751,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions\/36751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}