{"id":9515,"date":"2011-02-24T22:55:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T04:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9515"},"modified":"2016-05-14T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T22:09:03","slug":"precious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9515","title":{"rendered":"Precious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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 Bridgit Moon<\/p>\n<p>Sheepshead tonight.\u00a0 I took in honey for Ed, Dick, Roy and Bill plus honeycake that Kate made from our honey.\u00a0 Artemis Hives honors the ancient Greek Goddess of the hunt who also had honeybees within her domain.\u00a0 Worshippers took to her altar honeycake as an offering.\u00a0 My original idea was to call Artemis honey, &#8220;The honeycake honey&#8221; and include honeycake recipe and a bit about Artemis with each sale.\u00a0 Might still happen, some year.<\/p>\n<p>The card gods were good to me tonight, again.\u00a0 They gave me three good hands when I dealt, a good position when playing sheepshead.\u00a0 Ed and Bill both spoke about their wives with Bill reporting the good news that Regina&#8217;s cancer score has already begun to trend down after only a brief time on the hormone therapy.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the kind of news it&#8217;s good to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Ed&#8217;s wife has challenges surrounding a knee replacement gone bad compounded by her other health related issues.\u00a0 She&#8217;s in a transitional living facility right now while they try to calm her body down.<\/p>\n<p>As life goes on, I appreciate more and more the precious nature of the relationships I have at this sheepshead table, at the Museum, among the Sierra Club folks and the Woolly Mammoths.\u00a0 Each place enriches me and gives me a place to just be, be who I am.\u00a0 What a gift.<\/p>\n<p>So, good night to you and to Artemis Hives matron Goddess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\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 Bridgit Moon Sheepshead tonight.\u00a0 I took in honey for Ed, Dick, Roy and Bill plus honeycake that Kate made from our honey.\u00a0 Artemis Hives honors the ancient Greek Goddess of the hunt who also had honeybees within her domain.\u00a0 Worshippers took to her altar honeycake as an offering.\u00a0 My original idea was to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9515\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Precious<\/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":[1268,11],"tags":[2681,2619,530],"class_list":["post-9515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-friends","tag-artemis","tag-artemis-hives","tag-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9515","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=9515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40852,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9515\/revisions\/40852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}