{"id":26169,"date":"2009-03-18T18:43:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/18\/false-starts-and-cold-snaps\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T18:43:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T18:43:44","slug":"false-starts-and-cold-snaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/false-starts-and-cold-snaps\/","title":{"rendered":"False Starts and Cold Snaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>False starts and cold snaps. A sign of warm weather followed by an icy slap in the face. That&#8217;s a Minnesota spring. Native Minnesotans pretend this does not bother them, but it does. I can see it in their eyes, and every now and then someone will let out a plaintive wail or even just grunt to themselves when they hit the cold outdoors. That&#8217;s how I know it bothers even the wizened old timers who grew up before indoor heating and learned to love the winter by walking to school across the frozen lake every day&#8230;uphill in both directions&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/03\/false-starts-and-cold-snaps\/\"><br \/>\nRead the rest at QM.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>False starts and cold snaps. A sign of warm weather followed by an icy slap in the face. That&#8217;s a Minnesota spring. Native Minnesotans pretend this does not bother them, but it does. I can see it in their eyes, and every now and then someone will let out a plaintive wail or even just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/false-starts-and-cold-snaps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">False Starts and Cold Snaps<\/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\/p5fhV1-6O5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26169"}],"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=26169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}