{"id":958,"date":"2008-08-18T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2008-08-18T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T20:40:11","slug":"reading-the-oed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Reading the OED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>90\u00a0 bar steady 29.83\u00a0 0mph NNW dew-point 59\u00a0 sunrise 6:18\u00a0 sunset 8:14\u00a0 Lughnasa<\/p>\n<p>Full Corn Moon\u00a0 moon rise 2053\u00a0 moonset\u00a0 0816<\/p>\n<p>The salmon is in the house.\u00a0 So is the shrimp.\u00a0 And ice.\u00a0 Plus beer, NA, diet pop and bottled water (for entertaining purposes only).\u00a0 We have the leaves in the dining room table, the first time since we bought the table a year ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s long.\u00a0 Really long.\u00a0 Kate has the triangle of refrigerator, sink, stove cordoned off and wants no helpers in there.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think anybody will fight her for the privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Who said late August had no heat.\u00a0 Not this guy.\u00a0 With 90 and dewpoint at 59 outside dining stretches the Minnesota tolerance limits.\u00a0 Good thing we have air conditioning and tables inside, too.<\/p>\n<p>Got an Amazon order.\u00a0 A couple of things that look fun.\u00a0 <u>Reading the OED,<\/u> a guy who read the entire OED in one year.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, the <u>Landmark Herodotus, <\/u>an annotated version of the Histories.\u00a0 There&#8217;s something about history and\u00a0 historiography that fascinates me.<\/p>\n<p>My first two tours of the new academic year have come in over the transom.\u00a0 4th graders from Lakeville who want to see things Made In America and an MIA patron who wants a tour with an emphasis on Korea.\u00a0 Be good to strap back into the harness and pull a wagon or two.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to sweep the patio and arrange furniture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>90\u00a0 bar steady 29.83\u00a0 0mph NNW dew-point 59\u00a0 sunrise 6:18\u00a0 sunset 8:14\u00a0 Lughnasa Full Corn Moon\u00a0 moon rise 2053\u00a0 moonset\u00a0 0816 The salmon is in the house.\u00a0 So is the shrimp.\u00a0 And ice.\u00a0 Plus beer, NA, diet pop and bottled water (for entertaining purposes only).\u00a0 We have the leaves in the dining room table, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=958\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading the OED<\/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":[8,184,10],"tags":[762,763,761,110],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-literature","category-woolly-mammoths","tag-herodotus","tag-oed","tag-salmon","tag-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}