{"id":421,"date":"2009-01-15T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/15\/so-cold-that\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T19:03:00","slug":"so-cold-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/15\/so-cold-that\/","title":{"rendered":"So cold that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just past 2 in the afternoon and still zero at our studios in Canton. Dale Hobson made me laugh with <a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/brainclouds\/2009\/01\/coldsmobile.html\">today&#8217;s Listening Post<\/a>, describing the Wile E. Coyote variation on starting a car at these temperatures. That&#8217;s when you&#8217;ve sprayed dry gas into the carburetor or wherever, and the thing backfires&#8230;explosively.<br \/>I learned about dry gas first hand in 1975, I think, when a caravan  drove to Montreal for Chinese food and the Bob Dylan\/The Band concert. It was 20-30 below that night on the way back. We had the newest car, a 1974 Super Rabbit, which rolled to a dead stop on the roadside at St. Zotique. The gas line had frozen, at full speed. The boys hiked across the empty, snowy fields toward the only light in sight&#8230;which happened to be a gas station with a French-speaking mechanic asleep inside. A miracle. Dry gas works even with a language barrier, even when all you know is to just pour it into the gas fill and wait to see if things thaw out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just past 2 in the afternoon and still zero at our studios in Canton. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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\/421"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}