{"id":969,"date":"2006-03-04T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=969"},"modified":"2006-03-04T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T20:42:50","slug":"pouring-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"Pouring snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>&#8220;It is pouring snow&#8221;<\/u><\/strong><br \/><em>coll.<\/em> <strong>1.<\/strong>A storm that appears to be dumping that much snow, that it is almost ridiculous.<br \/>\nex. <em>Today, the snow was pouring over the car.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Origin<\/em>: Made up colloqual: when experiencing the first Nova Scotian snowstorm (which happened to last a couple of days) and seeing the snow accumulate to a 20 or 25 centimeters, I was not able to explain this behaviour in regular Dutch. See also, &#8216;freezing rain&#8217; (another weather concept I was not familiar with until I actually seen it).\n<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=654\">Pouring snow<\/a> vs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=Freezing+rain\">freezing rain<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is pouring snow&#8221;coll. 1.A storm that appears to be dumping that much snow, that it is almost ridiculous. ex. Today, the snow was pouring over the car. Origin: Made up colloqual: when experiencing the first Nova Scotian snowstorm (which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=969\">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":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969"}],"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=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}