{"id":990,"date":"2006-02-27T21:20:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T01:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=990"},"modified":"2006-02-27T21:20:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T01:20:46","slug":"and-behold-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"And behold: Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">J<\/span>ust tonight, it <a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/snow_squ_alls.jpg\" title=\"Snowsqualls\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/snow_squ_alls.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Snowsqualls\" \/><\/a>truly feels like Winter: temperatures will go down to minus -17 tonight and stick around those temperatures for a couple of days. Add to that the (sudden) snow blast. It&#8217;s going to be some shoveling for tomorrow morning. Unless a friendly Samaritan decides to do it for me.\n<\/p>\n<p>Word of the season is &#8216;snowquall&#8217;. I can&#8217;t remember it ever being mentioned before, on either radio, TV or internet relay station. Hey, even Merriam doesn&#8217;t know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webster.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&#038;va=snowsquall\">what it is<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snowsquall\">Wikipedia to the rescue<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just tonight, it truly feels like Winter: temperatures will go down to minus -17 tonight and stick around those temperatures for a couple of days. Add to that the (sudden) snow blast. It&#8217;s going to be some shoveling for tomorrow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=990\">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\/990"}],"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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}