{"id":91,"date":"2010-02-23T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/~david\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=91"},"modified":"2010-02-23T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:44:24","slug":"wintery-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/02\/23\/wintery-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Wintery Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weathermen called for cold weather today with a possibility of snow.  On the radio (and certainly on the TV too?), they talked and talked about dropping temperatures and projected lows and the possibility of <em>4 inches of snow accumulation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The paper said it, too.  In big block letters across the top of the metro section, this morning&#8217;s headlines proclaimed the possibility of snow.<\/p>\n<p>Trudy looked up at me as I rolled my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>She knows how I feel about this fetish Central Texas weathermen seem to have with inclement weather &mdash; proclaiming in excited tones coming fronts, warning people of the dangers &#8230; all in the interest, Trudy knows I feel, of getting eyeballs to drive advertising revenue.  But when it snows in Dallas, it usually doesn&#8217;t snow in Central Texas, and more often than not, their proclamations pass without a snowflake falling.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m in there this morning at the keyboard, reading email, modifying a program, listening to the garbage truck work its way toward our house, when Trudy shouts from the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s snowing!  It&#8217;s snowing!  Come quick, it&#8217;s snowing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And sure enough, there it is just outside our patio door: big wet flakes falling out of the sky, covering the garden beds and the compost pile.  There it is, just like they said: our wintery mix, <em>all 0.25 inches of it<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weathermen called for cold weather today with a possibility of snow. On the radio (and certainly on the TV too?), they talked and talked about dropping temperatures and projected lows and the possibility of 4 inches of snow accumulation. The paper said it, too. In big block letters across the top of the metro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}