{"id":41371,"date":"2014-01-26T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41371"},"modified":"2014-01-25T08:11:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:11:57","slug":"doakes-sunday-blinded-by-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41371","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:   Blinded By The Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>My Dad taught himself to play \u201cOh! Susanna\u201d on the guitar.\u00a0 The clever juxtaposition of opposites in the lyrics made us kids laugh: \u201crained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry.\u00a0 The sun so hot, I froze to death, Susanna don\u2019t you cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Foster may have been an early advocate of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/01\/06\/thank-global-warming-for-freezing-you-right-now.html#url=\/articles\/2014\/01\/06\/thank-global-warming-for-freezing-you-right-now.html\" target=\"_blank\">global warming<\/a>\u00a0because alarmists are singing the same blues today \u2013 it\u2019s cold because it\u2019s hot.<\/p>\n<p>The reason we\u2019re freezin\u2019 is not the season, it\u2019s that there is no pleasin\u2019 the freezin\u2019 chillun drivin instead of standin\u2019 at the light rail station.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And then with a very unpleasin&#8217; freezin&#8217; and wheezin&#8217; the light rail crashed to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Then some go-kart Mozart was checkin&#8217; out the weather charts, seeing if it was safe outside, and some early curly-wurly sat up in his hurly-burly and asked me if I needed a ride.<\/p>\n<p>I guess Springsteen was on top of the weather back in 1973&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: My Dad taught himself to play \u201cOh! Susanna\u201d on the guitar.\u00a0 The clever juxtaposition of opposites in the lyrics made us kids laugh: \u201crained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry.\u00a0 The sun so hot, I froze to death, Susanna don\u2019t you cry.\u201d Stephen Foster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41371","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=41371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41415,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41371\/revisions\/41415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}