{"id":2359,"date":"2009-06-29T05:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T10:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2009-06-29T06:12:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T11:12:27","slug":"sno-joke-theyre-calling-for-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/06\/29\/sno-joke-theyre-calling-for-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;sno joke, they&#8217;re calling for snow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it me, or have the people down at the weather office taken to drinking in the afternoons?  Or maybe in the mornings?  I mean, I know weather forecasting is more art than science, and that there&#8217;s a reason they deal in probabilities.  But seriously?  They&#8217;ve been wrong more often than they&#8217;ve been right in the last month.<\/p>\n<p>This one takes the cake, though.  I was checking the forecast for Canada Day and the upcoming week this morning when I saw this:<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/forecast-copy-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"snow joke!\" title=\"snow joke!\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, they&#8217;re calling for snow.  On Canada Day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to hope they&#8217;re wrong on this one.  But maybe I should dig out my red and white scarf just in case?<\/p>\n<p>P.S.  Snow aside, isn&#8217;t that just about a perfect vacation-week forecast?  Sigh.  If I had even the least bit of confidence in their prognostication skills, I&#8217;d be annoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it me, or have the people down at the weather office taken to drinking in the afternoons? Or maybe in the mornings? I mean, I know weather forecasting is more art than science, and that there&#8217;s a reason they deal in probabilities. But seriously? They&#8217;ve been wrong more often than they&#8217;ve been right in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/06\/29\/sno-joke-theyre-calling-for-snow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;sno joke, they&#8217;re calling for snow!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}