{"id":6412,"date":"2015-01-07T16:36:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T23:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/one-week-after-the-snow\/"},"modified":"2015-01-08T09:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:05:48","slug":"one-week-after-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/07\/one-week-after-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"One Week After the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/one-week-after-snow.jpg' title='One Week After the Snow'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/one-week-after-snow.jpg' alt='One Week After the Snow' width='350' class='right' \/><\/a>Exactly a week ago, the ground was covered with snow. Much of it, especially on the north side of hills, stayed for several days.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, is like spring again. There is no snow in sight. I broke out in a sweat in a T shirt hiking up on the hill behind the house. Although we don&#8217;t think winter is over by far, Damsel and I will take this nice weather for now.<\/p>\n<p>The clock on the patio is reporting for mid afternoon, the time and date, phase of the moon (full) and a tropical 71.3 degrees in the shade. The phenomenon we are observing here is called weather.<\/p>\n<p>It is not climate disruption, not global warming, not CO<sub>2<\/sub> greenhouse effect and not urban heat island<sub>(1)<\/sub>. It&#8217;s just weather, the same thing every year with the occasional anomaly. We&#8217;re good with that, so stop whining about what it ain&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Urban Heat Island (<a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/green-science\/urban-heat-island.htm\">UHI<\/a>) is real enough, but not here in semi-rural Wickenburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly a week ago, the ground was covered with snow. Much of it, especially on the north side of hills, stayed for several days. Today, however,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,10,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-environment","category-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}