{"id":29645,"date":"2016-02-20T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29645"},"modified":"2016-02-10T21:33:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T02:33:50","slug":"qotd-the-joys-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/qotd-the-joys-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The &#8220;joys&#8221; of winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The cold has returned &mdash; cruel, aching, deep-space cold. Not as bad as last year\u2019s 20 below \/ 37 below with wind chill, but after you\u2019re below zero it\u2019s just numbers. There\u2019s the cold you shrug off, the cold you note with brief displeasure, and the cold that still chews your toes ten minutes after you\u2019re inside the Target store. Scout the Dog came in from a session outside disinterring bones and put his nose in his pillow and rubbed it around to get it warm. The boiler in the basement labors like a steamship stoker. There are no birds. There is no sun. When you slam your car door you almost expect the vehicle to shatter.<\/p>\n<p>James Lileks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/15\/0115\/010515.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Bleat<\/em><\/a>, 2015-01-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cold has returned &mdash; cruel, aching, deep-space cold. Not as bad as last year\u2019s 20 below \/ 37 below with wind chill, but after you\u2019re below zero it\u2019s just numbers. There\u2019s the cold you shrug off, the cold you note with brief displeasure, and the cold that still chews your toes ten minutes after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,57,41],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-29645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-severeweather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7I9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29646,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29645\/revisions\/29646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}