{"id":434,"date":"2002-12-10T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-10T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=434"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:43:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:43:29","slug":"wintry-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Wintry Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds almost appetizing, doesn&#8217;t it?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the weather forecast for tonight-tomorrow. What it really means is slop.<br \/>\nSomething cold and wet is going to fall out of the sky, and they&#8217;re not sure just<br \/>\nexactly what combination of rain, freezing rain, snow and sleet to expect.<br \/>\nI assume that means I&#8217;ll be working instead of hunting tomorrow.<br \/>\nI wonder if it will bring out as many loonies as last week&#8217;s snowfall.<br \/>\nThe police log from last week is full of amusing incidents.<br \/>\nA few reports of &#8220;suspicious cars&#8221; doing doughnuts in parking lots.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s suspicious about that, during the season&#8217;s first real snowfall.<br \/>\nThen there&#8217;s the &#8220;suspicious person&#8221; skiing down the middle of Rose Street. I thought the administration <b>wanted<\/b> to encourage alternative transportation to reduce vehicular traffic on campus.<br \/>\nI do have to wonder about one that might not be weather-related: &#8220;Suspicious car .. 9:15 PM, vehicle pulling couch with person strapped to it&#8221;. If he&#8217;s not doing doughnuts, he&#8217;s not on skis, and he has his seatbelt fastened, what&#8217;s the problem?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds almost appetizing, doesn&#8217;t it? That&#8217;s the weather forecast for tonight-tomorrow. What it really means is slop. Something cold and wet is going to fall out of the sky, and they&#8217;re not sure just exactly what combination of rain, freezing rain, snow and sleet to expect. I assume that means I&#8217;ll be working instead of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=434\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wintry Mix<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-70","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}