{"id":1562,"date":"2010-02-01T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/01\/really-canceling-winter-carnival-because-of-winter\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:40:00","slug":"really-canceling-winter-carnival-because-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/01\/really-canceling-winter-carnival-because-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Really? Canceling Winter Carnival because of winter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to be all superior, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troyrecord.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/30\/news\/doc4b63a083d96f4626159991.txt\">this story in the Troy Register<\/a> is too good to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>The town of Cohoes actually canceled their Winter Carnival last weekend because it was too cold.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The city has canceled its annual winter carnival this weekend due to the low predicted temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>The carnival was supposed to take place Saturday in Van Schaick Island Park and feature skating races, a hockey shootout, snowman building, live music, a bonfire, and carriage rides.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Weather Service, temperatures are expected to peak near 18 degrees Saturday with a northwest wind around 9 mph and wind chill values as low as -11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that sort of missing the point?  We turn the dark, cold days of mid-winter into a carnival precisely because it is, well, frigid.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Saranac Lake&#8217;s big winter carnival bash kicks off this weekend, and the palace is looking great despite a few days of thaw-setback.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and a schedule, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saranaclakewintercarnival.com\/\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Is your town going ahead with winter carnival this month?  If so, give us details in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to be all superior, but this story in the Troy Register is too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}