{"id":8502,"date":"2010-11-24T13:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:32:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T16:32:18","slug":"thanksgiving-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8502","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Eve"},"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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>Grocery shopping this morning, the day before Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Like traveling by air on a holiday.\u00a0 Like going to see the Tower of London in July.\u00a0 Like shopping on Black Friday.\u00a0 I went early though and it wasn&#8217;t too bad.\u00a0 There was the man with one turkey in his cart, a shocked disorientation on his face, his white hair wild.\u00a0 A woman with black flats, a wool skirt below the ankle and a helmet like cloth hat strapped under her chin.\u00a0 A woman and her mother, mom in a white faux fur coat, shiny cloth pants and dangly ear-rings with zircon or diamond but I&#8217;d bet zircon.\u00a0 The clerk from Nevis.\u00a0 I had a farm near Nevis.\u00a0 Oh, where?\u00a0 On Spider Lake.\u00a0 Oh, a friend of mine has a resort on Spider Lake.\u00a0 Did you find everything you were looking for?<\/p>\n<p>The message board had advertisements for guys offering snow plowing services.\u00a0 I memorized a number, 227-9899, and called for a free estimate when I got home.<\/p>\n<p>Sleepy now, Latin this afternoon and evening, Thanksgiving tomorrow.\u00a0 A restaurant meal for us this year, Axel&#8217;s Wood Roast in St. Paul.\u00a0 Annie&#8217;s coming up.<\/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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Thanksgiving Moon Grocery shopping this morning, the day before Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Like traveling by air on a holiday.\u00a0 Like going to see the Tower of London in July.\u00a0 Like shopping on Black Friday.\u00a0 I went early though and it wasn&#8217;t too bad.\u00a0 There was the man with one turkey in his cart, a shocked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thanksgiving Eve<\/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":[60,4,65,243,3],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-8502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-cooking","category-family","category-memories","category-weather-climate","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502","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=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36713,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/36713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}