{"id":875,"date":"2008-08-04T22:24:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T04:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2008-08-04T22:24:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T04:24:43","slug":"read-the-writing-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Read the Writing on the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>68\u00a0 bar rises 29.89\u00a0 omph NW\u00a0 dew-point 64\u00a0 sunrise 6:03 sunset 8:35\u00a0 Lughnasa<\/p>\n<p>Waxing Crescent of the Corn Moon<\/p>\n<p>Another Monday on the treadmill.\u00a0 In Victorian England they used the treadmill as a punishment in the gaol.\u00a0 Now I pay big bucks for one so I can do it voluntarily.\u00a0 How times change.<\/p>\n<p>Woollies tonight at the Black Forest.\u00a0 Frank, Bill, Mark, Scott and me.\u00a0 We discussed the peculiar propensity for conservatives to shut off their otherwise keen intellects when it comes to political matters.\u00a0 Bill thinks it&#8217;s because they have propensity to believe authority.\u00a0 Maybe so, but they pick the authority that agrees with their bias.\u00a0 The part that bothers me about most of the conservative rant is their unwillingness to think critically, to evaluate evidence on its merit, rather than its fit with the ideological spin of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Mark&#8217;s stepson, Christopher, took him to a legal tagging wall.\u00a0 It&#8217;s at Intermedia Arts on Lyndale near 28th Street.\u00a0 The police have set up this free wall, supposedly the only one in the US (a tagger on an expensive bike with a thick chain worn across his upper body like the sacred thread of the Brahmin told us this.).\u00a0 Taggers can sign up for a large chunk of the wall.\u00a0 They then have the right to put an approved design (no porn, that kinda thing) for a month.\u00a0 Christophers says at night there might be 200-300 people there watching the taggers work on the wall.\u00a0 There were none at 7:30 PM when four old men stood around trying to read the writing on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>I took Frank home.\u00a0 We need to get together again for lunch.\u00a0 Soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>68\u00a0 bar rises 29.89\u00a0 omph NW\u00a0 dew-point 64\u00a0 sunrise 6:03 sunset 8:35\u00a0 Lughnasa Waxing Crescent of the Corn Moon Another Monday on the treadmill.\u00a0 In Victorian England they used the treadmill as a punishment in the gaol.\u00a0 Now I pay big bucks for one so I can do it voluntarily.\u00a0 How times change. Woollies tonight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=875\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read the Writing on the Wall<\/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":[11,10],"tags":[530,340,169,678,679],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-woolly-mammoths","tag-bill","tag-frank","tag-mark","tag-scott","tag-tagging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","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=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}