{"id":47,"date":"2006-12-09T13:49:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T13:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.neolefty.org\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2006-12-09T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T13:49:25","slug":"cold-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/09\/cold-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beard-weather here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weather.yahoo.com\/forecast\/USIL1191.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"weather.png\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/neolefty.org\/archives\/images\/weather.png\" width=\"439\" height=\"210\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning I saw a Caddy-style car bump into the back of an SUV at walking speed, maybe 3 MPH.  The SUV was fine, but the front grill of the car shattered like glass (and sounded like glass breaking).  It was really chrome-shiny, but broken on the ground, it was a mix of white and chrome.  I think it must have been some kind of metal-glazed plastic that got really brittle in the cold.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, Georgia and Maya and I were discussing how cold it is.  We agreed that it was really cold.  Probably around 10F or 20F.  They asked whether I had ever experienced anything colder.  I said that I had, when I was little, and we lived in northern Illinois.  I think remember it getting down to -20F, but I think I&#8217;d better check with my Dad.  He was responsible for cancelling school when the weather was too harsh, so he probably remembers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20061209_garage_sand_9.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/neolefty.org\/archives\/images\/20061209_garage_sand_9.JPG\" width=\"492\" height=\"351\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our garage foundation, too, is waiting for warmer weather.  Specifically, the cement can&#8217;t be poured until the ground thaws.  It might be a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s beard-weather here. Thursday morning I saw a Caddy-style car bump into the back of an SUV at walking speed, maybe 3 MPH. The SUV was fine, but the front grill of the car shattered like glass (and sounded like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/09\/cold-weather\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fleeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}