{"id":13429,"date":"2015-01-31T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=13429"},"modified":"2015-01-31T10:38:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T15:38:06","slug":"wicked-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2015\/01\/31\/wicked-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13431\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2015\/01\/377124_10150472194026637_1355965104_n.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13431\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13431  \" alt=\"A smellkald (cracking cold) day on Todd Moe's Norwegian thermometer. Photo: Todd Moe\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2015\/01\/377124_10150472194026637_1355965104_n.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2015\/01\/377124_10150472194026637_1355965104_n.jpg 406w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2015\/01\/377124_10150472194026637_1355965104_n-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A <em>smellkald<\/em> (cracking cold) day on Todd Moe&#8217;s Norwegian thermometer. Photo: Todd Moe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The forecast just reads &#8220;wicked cold&#8221; as far out as it runs; it could be permanent for all I know. I expect when the groundhog peeks out on Monday, his eyeballs will freeze solid, hypothermia will stop his heart and he will topple back into his burrow, dead.<\/p>\n<p>According to traditional lore, I believe that means 12 more weeks of winter. R.I.P.\u00a0Punxsutawney Phil.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a fan of this. This is weather that 2000-piece jigsaw puzzles are made for. And while I won&#8217;t actually stick my nose outside the door long enough to need it for warming purposes, I may drink some hot chocolate, in sympathy with those who venture forth like intrepid astronauts onto unearthly terrain. I&#8217;ll enjoy reading about their adventures from a chair next to the heat vent.<\/p>\n<p>More power to all of you who delight in skiing and skating, ice climbing, snowmobiling and polar bear swimming, etc. That&#8217;s what emergency services are there for.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be right here&#8211;and that&#8217;s right&#8211;still in my bathrobe, squinting at the glare outside the window. I may read a little; I may even nap a little. The pantry is full and so is the fuel oil tank. It&#8217;ll be OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forecast just reads &#8220;wicked cold&#8221; as far out as it runs; it could be [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13434,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions\/13434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}