{"id":60767,"date":"2016-10-31T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60767"},"modified":"2016-10-31T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T12:38:07","slug":"happy-anniversary-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60767","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody who was in Minnesota in 1991 needs to be reminded; today&#8217;s the 25th anniversary of the Halloween Blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the blizzard caught everyone by surprise, but it sure fooled me. \u00a0I remember seeing the first snowflake that morning as I picked my mom up for the airport &#8211; she was back from Turkey &#8211; against a fairly pleasant-looking October sky.<\/p>\n<p>By that evening, we were thoroughly stuck out at my in-laws, with a 3 month old, a 10 year old, my at-the-time wife and my mother.<\/p>\n<p>For three days.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, I remember it.<\/p>\n<p>On a more clinical note? \u00a0I did\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>know that the Halloween blizzard w<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1991_Halloween_blizzard\">as in part a consequence <\/a>of the so-called &#8220;Perfect Storm&#8221; of Hollywood fame.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the relatively warm day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody who was in Minnesota in 1991 needs to be reminded; today&#8217;s the 25th anniversary of the Halloween Blizzard. I&#8217;m not sure if the blizzard caught everyone by surprise, but it sure fooled me. \u00a0I remember seeing the first snowflake that morning as I picked my mom up for the airport &#8211; she was back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60767","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=60767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60768,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60767\/revisions\/60768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}