{"id":839,"date":"2005-12-07T20:40:21","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T00:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=839"},"modified":"2005-12-07T20:40:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T00:40:31","slug":"more-of-this-cold-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"More of this cold please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>e&#8217;ve slowly entered the cold dark age of Winter. Last week, the first couple of centimeters of snow seemed to announce the beginning of that age. I bet, those snowy leftovers will be hanging around until our first thaw in the Spring. -1o Degrees! So much for hoping for a milder Winter. Less snow then, please.\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, my wife remembered the typical Dutch December 5th celebration and surprised me with a genuine (but not Dutch) chocolate letter. A genuine &#8216;A&#8217; too. It was a moment of joy and obviously, pause too. Related to this: I&#8217;ve been wanting to make <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?hl=en&#038;c2coff=1&#038;safe=off&#038;q=Amandelstaaf&#038;spell=1&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wi\">&#8216;amandelstaaf&#8217;<\/a> for the longest time. It brings up good memories about the day we touched Dutch soil.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sporadically following the Curry vs. Winer <em>fight<\/em>, particularly after Curry&#8217;s last poo-poo and confession about editing the history of podcasting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curry.com\/pictures\/viewer$54421\">Low blow after low blow, followed<\/a>. While I&#8217;m not a fan of Curry either, seeing Winer manipulate his own writings just makes me want to throw up. Seeing Winer carry pictures of his buddies on his weblog, reminds me of a typical word: [<span style=\"color:white\">opgeilen<\/span>]. <a href=\"http:\/\/benmetcalfe.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/12\/07\/dave-winer-wades-in\/#comment-1395\">Huh<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve slowly entered the cold dark age of Winter. Last week, the first couple of centimeters of snow seemed to announce the beginning of that age. I bet, those snowy leftovers will be hanging around until our first thaw in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=839\">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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839"}],"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=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}