{"id":9108,"date":"2010-11-18T08:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T08:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/18\/this-was-our-weatherman\/"},"modified":"2010-11-18T08:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T08:08:30","slug":"this-was-our-weatherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/this-was-our-weatherman\/","title":{"rendered":"This was our weatherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul was a real live scientific meteorologist who accidentally ended up a TV weatherman.  (The regular one was sick, the substitute was sick, so they threw him in front of the camera.) He then became so popular that they fired him during a budget crunch.  He was one of the first weather reporters anywhere, and certainly the first in Minnesota, to tell people that AGW is real.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry he didn&#8217;t die or anything.  (Don Shelby is retiring thus this conversation):<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/video.minneapolis.cbslocal.com\/global\/video\/videoplayer.js?rnd=720207;hostDomain=video.minneapolis.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=450;playerHeight=375;isShowIcon=true;clipId=5304824;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.MINN\/worldnowplayer;enableAds=false;landingPage=null;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul was a real live scientific meteorologist who accidentally ended up a TV weatherman. (The regular one was sick, the substitute was sick, so they threw him in front of the camera.) He then became so popular that they fired him during a budget crunch. He was one of the first weather reporters anywhere, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/this-was-our-weatherman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This was our weatherman<\/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\/p5fhV1-2mU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108"}],"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=9108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}