{"id":896,"date":"2010-02-10T07:37:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=896"},"modified":"2010-02-10T07:38:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:38:31","slug":"snow-days-or-why-new-jersey-isnt-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/896","title":{"rendered":"Snow Days (or:  Why New Jersey Isn&#8217;t So Bad)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are living right now under a swirling Nor&#8217;easter that reminds me why Emily was able to convince me to move back to the East Coast.  My love for snow simply can&#8217;t be underestimated.  Really can&#8217;t.  I am just walking around in a state of euphoric bliss as the precipitation accumulates.  It even figured heavily in the short story I wrote last night, the second in a week.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s ten quick pictures to get you started on the storm of last weekend and the much bigger storm underway now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, it snowed!:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SnowFeb10-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I finally made good use of our fancy new scraper thing:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SnowFeb10-2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>We made a plan to meet some friends in the afternoon and play in the snow.  I immediately set to work on a snow fort that wound up looking a little mazey:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SnowFeb10-3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Emily made a snow angel, her first ever:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SnowFeb10-4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Obligatory artistic shot:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SnowFeb10-5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>When we got home and a day or so had passed, I missed my snow fort.  So I started another one in our yard, with a much smaller footprint, but aspirations for greater height:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SnowFeb10-6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This morning, as dawn broke, it was deja vu all over again:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SnowFeb10-7.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This tree is right in front of our house:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SnowFeb10-8.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I had worked on the fort last night as it started snowing again&#8230; there&#8217;s some real potential brewing here:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SnowFeb10-9.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The Prius was ready this time.  If by &#8220;ready&#8221; we mean &#8220;prepared to look silly&#8221;:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SnowFeb10-10.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are living right now under a swirling Nor&#8217;easter that reminds me why Emily was able to convince me to move back to the East Coast. My love for snow simply can&#8217;t be underestimated. Really can&#8217;t. I am just walking around in a state of euphoric bliss as the precipitation accumulates. It even figured heavily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26,32],"tags":[5,67,72],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-just-add-photo","category-telling-stories","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-just-add-photo","tag-telling-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}