{"id":2916,"date":"2012-12-30T08:37:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2012-12-30T08:37:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T13:37:40","slug":"learning-to-love-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/12\/30\/learning-to-love-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to love winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2917\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/12\/pierrekids.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2917\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2917\" title=\"pierrekids\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/12\/pierrekids.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/12\/pierrekids.jpg 403w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/12\/pierrekids-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/12\/pierrekids-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadie, Pierre and Billy, at the bottom of the sledding hill after this week&#8217;s snow storm. (Photo: Jessy Gray)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Pierre Nzuah arrived at the Syracuse airport exactly two years ago, he was in the same clothes he&#8217;d been wearing when he left equatorial Cameroon 24 hours earlier. Luckily, someone from SUNY Canton met him at the airport and took him over to Sears to buy a parka and gloves. Pierre told me that most of that first semester he spent inside&#8211;only going out to walk from his dorm to classes.<\/p>\n<p>By last winter, Pierre was adjusting&#8211;like other college students, he seemed to be wearing far too little warm clothing when it was cold outside.<\/p>\n<p>He donned ice skates for the first time and loved it. He had no problem grasping the rules of snowball fights (i.e., there are none).<\/p>\n<p>We took this photo a few days ago of Pierre with our grandkids. Need I say more?<\/p>\n<p>Pierre, reading this post over my shoulder just said: &#8220;Actually, the weather doesn&#8217;t bother me at all any more. And, when I go back to Cameroon, I imagine the weather there will seem strange to me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, somehow I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll have any problem adjusting to 70 degrees F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Pierre Nzuah arrived at the Syracuse airport exactly two years ago, he was in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6109,965,6174,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}