{"id":9926,"date":"2011-04-04T21:06:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T03:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9926"},"modified":"2016-05-14T12:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T18:06:52","slug":"a-night-i-needed-friends-and-they-were-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9926","title":{"rendered":"A Night I Needed Friends.  And They Were There."},"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\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Bee Hiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>On the way back from the Red Stag, the Woolly Monday night meeting, the moon hung in the western sky, a thin crescent, a slice, almost too faint to see, a shy moon against a dark blue backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>Warren and Mark were there tonight.\u00a0 We had a couple of laughs over hearing as we each turned our heads to hear what the other had said.\u00a0 Aging men, old ears.\u00a0 We talked about nuclear power, the Republican health and human services budget which Warren covers for the Star-Tribune.\u00a0 Mark told me he and Elizabeth had learned Tai Chi from a Chinese teacher in Shanghai.\u00a0 The instructor spoke no English.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to practice together at the next Woolly meeting.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke a bit about Mark (brother) and his coming to America.\u00a0 Mark (Woolly) met some of the ex-pat community in Thailand.\u00a0 He said they&#8217;re a bit edgy, a different group than other places.<\/p>\n<p>We each had one of Red Stag&#8217;s local food dishes.\u00a0 I had a Kale gratin that was wonderful with a Limousin hamburger.<\/p>\n<p>This was a night I needed to talk to friends and I&#8217;m glad they were there.<\/p>\n<p>So, life will change, again.\u00a0 As it always does.<\/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\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Bee Hiving Moon On the way back from the Red Stag, the Woolly Monday night meeting, the moon hung in the western sky, a thin crescent, a slice, almost too faint to see, a shy moon against a dark blue backdrop. Warren and Mark were there tonight.\u00a0 We had a couple of laughs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Night I Needed Friends.  And They Were There.<\/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":[60,65,10],"tags":[3271,3272,2962,3243,452],"class_list":["post-9926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-family","category-woolly-mammoths","tag-mark-e","tag-mark-o","tag-red-stag","tag-tai-chi","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926","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=9926"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40777,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926\/revisions\/40777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}