{"id":35050,"date":"2018-02-13T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35050"},"modified":"2018-01-24T08:58:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:58:49","slug":"qotd-mark-twain-on-indian-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/02\/13\/qotd-mark-twain-on-indian-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Mark Twain on Indian weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I believe that in India &#8216;cold weather&#8217; is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain, <em>Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World<\/em>, 1897.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that in India &#8216;cold weather&#8217; is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, 1897.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[57,23,41],"tags":[949,330],"class_list":["post-35050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-india","category-quotations","tag-marktwain","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-97k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050","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=35050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35051,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35050\/revisions\/35051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}