{"id":830,"date":"2011-01-24T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=830"},"modified":"2011-01-24T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:30:08","slug":"cold-cairns-and-chilblains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/01\/24\/cold-cairns-and-chilblains\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold, cairns and chilblains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the north country, cold = boasting rights. Right? It was -33F at my place last night. I survived. I&#8217;m tougher than you, if you saw only (<em>only<\/em>!) -15F, well, I&#8217;m just more north country than you are. On the other hand, if it was -38F at your house, I&#8217;m whupped. You win. Oh yeah, it&#8217;s all friendly, but there is a weird competition about who saw lower temperatures. It&#8217;s a feature of living in a cold climate. Funny, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Out walking with husband Bill yesterday, it was already -6F at mid-afternoon. I made him snap this photo of one of the (many) cairns he&#8217;s built around our farm:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_831\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/01\/cairn.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-831\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-831\" title=\"cairn\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/01\/cairn-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/01\/cairn-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/01\/cairn-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Knoble cairn on the upper meadow.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s chilblains. What the heck are chilblains, you ask? Well, here&#8217;s the dictionary definition: &#8220;an inflammatory swelling or sore caused by exposure (as of hands or feet) to cold; medical name is erythema pernio; less severe than frostbite.&#8221; For me, though, chilblains are one of those words I associate with 19th century British fiction or my old farm neighbors. It&#8217;s a word that just isn&#8217;t used anymore. I love it. &#8220;Ah, dearie, rub my feet a bit whilst I sit by the fire&#8230;my chilblains are acting up again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, this blog entry is about cold weather&#8230;did I tell you it was -33F at my farm last night?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the north country, cold = boasting rights. Right? It was -33F at my place [&#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":[5398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}