{"id":8603,"date":"2010-12-03T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T01:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8603"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T16:25:37","slug":"parked-outside-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8603","title":{"rendered":"Parked Outside.  At Home."},"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 Waning Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>Yee Ow!\u00a0 Into the Sierra Club for the final interview round.\u00a0 Snow began coming down.\u00a0 The interviews were good, and the after processing was good, but the snow continued to fall. When I googled MNDOT for road conditions, all roads were red leading home.\u00a0 So.\u00a0 I went over to the Merry Lanes and hung around while the Sierra Club staff engaged in team building by knocking (some) pins down.\u00a0 It was fun, but I didn&#8217;t get me home.\u00a0 Finally, around 5:40 I decided to come home anyhow.\u00a0 It took me over an hour&#8211;a ride that took me 30 minutes just this morning&#8211;never going higher 30 mph and mostly 20 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Then, to sink the knife in deeper, the great unsolved problem of our homeplace confronted me, again.\u00a0 That is, a sloped ascent packed with snow.\u00a0 I tried for another half an hour to drive up and into the garage stall, but even with the help of the granite grit, I finally gave up, too tired from the day and the commute.\u00a0 So the Celica sits about half up the driveway, a task for tomorrow.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Once Kate retires I plan to drive the truck (4 wheel drive) in instances like this.\u00a0 No problem crawling up the hill then.<\/p>\n<p>Latin went well this morning.\u00a0 Decided to stay on a weekly schedule for now.<\/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 Waning Thanksgiving Moon Yee Ow!\u00a0 Into the Sierra Club for the final interview round.\u00a0 Snow began coming down.\u00a0 The interviews were good, and the after processing was good, but the snow continued to fall. When I googled MNDOT for road conditions, all roads were red leading home.\u00a0 So.\u00a0 I went over to the Merry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parked Outside.  At 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":[9,100,3],"tags":[494,2966,4370],"class_list":["post-8603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-work","category-politics","category-weather-climate","tag-celica","tag-driveway","tag-sierra-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603","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=8603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36696,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions\/36696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}