{"id":9799,"date":"2011-03-23T14:08:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2016-05-14T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T18:15:34","slug":"weather-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9799","title":{"rendered":"Weather Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring(?)\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 Bloodroot Moon<\/p>\n<p>Well.\u00a0 About a foot of new snow.\u00a0 A foot.\u00a0 Heavy, heart attack snow, too.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to imagine a less welcome weather pattern at this time, with the exception of a hard rain.\u00a0 Oh, yeah, we had a hard rain most of yesterday.\u00a0 Both of them up the ante for the flooding season and seem to put the growing season still further and further away.\u00a0 These kind of complaints often come in Minnesota about this time, stimulated not so much by the fact of snow or the extension of winter weather, but from a calendar encouraged yearning for a new season, a different form of weather.\u00a0 We temperate folks like our weather, all four seasons of it, but we want all four seasons.\u00a0 You know, a cool clear fall, a cold snowy winter, a bright colorful spring and a hot productive summer.\u00a0 If it appears the weather gods have forgotten a season and just might skip one, we can get cranky.<\/p>\n<p>Kate came into my study this morning and said, with some surprise, &#8220;You&#8217;re putting something together!&#8221;\u00a0 And she was right.\u00a0 I ordered another editor&#8217;s desk from Levenger&#8217;s so I now have a continuous run of inclined desk space about three feet long.\u00a0 When juggling books, note pads and more books, these inclined desks make work a lot easier.\u00a0 Now I have enough space at the same height.<\/p>\n<p>More Latin, translating the Metamorphoses, and later, the legcom call for the Sierra Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring(?)\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 Bloodroot Moon Well.\u00a0 About a foot of new snow.\u00a0 A foot.\u00a0 Heavy, heart attack snow, too.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to imagine a less welcome weather pattern at this time, with the exception of a hard rain.\u00a0 Oh, yeah, we had a hard rain most of yesterday.\u00a0 Both of them up the ante for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weather Complaint<\/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":[3],"tags":[390,98,2854,28],"class_list":["post-9799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-climate","tag-rain","tag-reading","tag-seasons","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799","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=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40800,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions\/40800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}