{"id":26161,"date":"2009-03-17T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/17\/stay-off-the-ice\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T10:06:12","slug":"stay-off-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/stay-off-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Off The Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thick ice is not good ice.  Even thick ice can become ice that will break up on you if it experiences warm conditions for a while.  Therefore, right now in much of Minnesota, <strong>NONE OF THE ICE IS SAFE<\/strong>.  None of it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the rule:  If you get two days above freezing, it takes two days below freezing (all day) to &#8220;reset&#8221; the ice.  We are, at this point, beyond any possibility of that happening.  The part of the year where you drive your pickup around on the ice &#8230; is over.  We don&#8217;t need your stinking environmental hazard when you go through.<\/p>\n<p><em>The previous message was applicable only to people in Minnesota.  Thank you very much.  That is all. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thick ice is not good ice. Even thick ice can become ice that will break up on you if it experiences warm conditions for a while. Therefore, right now in much of Minnesota, NONE OF THE ICE IS SAFE. None of it. Here is the rule: If you get two days above freezing, it takes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/stay-off-the-ice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stay Off The Ice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6NX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}