{"id":2041,"date":"2008-01-29T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T17:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2008-01-29T12:50:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T17:50:45","slug":"chilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Chilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a tad cold out there &#8211; made all the worse by the fact that yesterday it was pushing 40 (and will probably be back in the thirties by the weekend).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I say a <em>tad<\/em> cold.\u00a0 I&#8217;m from North Dakota, originally &#8211; and while <a href=\"http:\/\/nihlist.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/debunking-mitch-nanook-of-north-dakota.html\">some naysayers will natter and phumpher<\/a> about the idea, it <em>is <\/em>colder up there, and much, much windier.<\/p>\n<p>So while most southern Minnesotans will call this current snap &#8220;cold&#8221; &#8211; reminding me people who whinge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1452\">like Hillary Clinton staffers at a NASCAR event<\/a>\u00a0when it drops below forty &#8211; I&#8217;ll allow this much; it&#8217;s a tad brisk.\u00a0 I <em>did <\/em>zip my coat all the way up this morning at the bus stop.\u00a0 And I wore a cap as I walked upwind to the office (although<em> <\/em>I <em>did <\/em>eschew the skyway.\u00a0 I mean, as if).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m all about the help.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a hint:\u00a0 when you&#8217;re walking into the teeth of a gale in weather like this, hum a Beach Boys song.<\/p>\n<p>It really helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a tad cold out there &#8211; made all the worse by the fact that yesterday it was pushing 40 (and will probably be back in the thirties by the weekend).\u00a0 I say a tad cold.\u00a0 I&#8217;m from North Dakota, originally &#8211; and while some naysayers will natter and phumpher about the idea, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}