{"id":2331,"date":"2010-10-02T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T19:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2010-10-11T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T01:29:00","slug":"round-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"Round here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he last 48 hours it was storming  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2332\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2332\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/east_coast-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Satellite image today\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/east_coast-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/east_coast-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/east_coast.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>so much that at times it reminded me of Hurricane Juan back in 2003. This morning I found out that apparently the wind was so strong that it had blown the BBQ upside down. If you think of it: the thing is heavy enough for me. This also serves as a reminder to at least clean the BBQ out so once in a while.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sticking with the weather, the local residents informed me that this year&#8217;s Summer was probably one of the better ones since, well, ages. Indeed it had been extremely warm during July and August: compared to the year before where it seemed to be raining every day (delaying the painting of the deck), I prefer a moderate climate with moderate temperatures. Then at least I don&#8217;t have to worry about the ground water level. Seasonal forecasts from Weather Canada <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.gc.ca\/saisons\/image_e.html?img=ccapcpn_12_s\">promise a nice amount of snow<\/a>: today, I don&#8217;t care if we&#8217;ll have snowstorms or not.\n<\/p>\n<p>And earlier this week, New Brunswickers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/nbvotes2010\/\">went to the polls<\/a> and voted out the mr. Graham&#8217;s Liberals: I read the conservatives easily managed to get a majority in the province&#8217;s assembly (42 versus 13?). I&#8217;m only surprised that third parties (like the NDP and the People Alliance) did not manage to get any seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last 48 hours it was storming so much that at times it reminded me of Hurricane Juan back in 2003. This morning I found out that apparently the wind was so strong that it had blown the BBQ upside &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2331\">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":[301],"tags":[302,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331"}],"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=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}