{"id":16,"date":"2005-03-02T21:38:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T01:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2005-03-02T21:38:37","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T01:38:37","slug":"snow-in-heh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Snow in -heh-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> noticed that the amount of  snow seems to be accumulating in The Netherlands.  Earlier this day, Alfons forwarded me pictures of kids (apparently) enjoying 4 to 5 centimeters of snow. It looks like <em>heavy slushy snow<\/em>, but still more than I&#8217;ve seen the last 5 to 7 years when I was living over there.\n<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the the Dutch (news) reports, traffic was chaotic, which led to the following question here: do Dutch use snowplows when there&#8217;s this much snow falling?\n<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember. Back when I was younger and when snow was accumulating to the same amounts they have now, I remember throwing snowballs at <em>salt trucks<\/em>. But then, I know the answer already: when I was over there last year I remember seeing all those speedbumps and roundabouts. There&#8217;s so much traffic, those things are the only way to force drivers to slow down.\n<\/p>\n<p>As for the snow&#8230; enjoy it for now. It&#8217;s almost Spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that the amount of snow seems to be accumulating in The Netherlands. Earlier this day, Alfons forwarded me pictures of kids (apparently) enjoying 4 to 5 centimeters of snow. It looks like heavy slushy snow, but still more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=16\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}