{"id":23280,"date":"2010-03-10T22:34:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T06:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2016-09-13T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T19:08:11","slug":"windy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/windy\/","title":{"rendered":"Windy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last two days have been absolutely nasty. I can&#8217;t believe the drops in temperature when I was <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=4237\">hiking in shorts and a tee-shirt in January<\/a>! Some people have reported seeing snow, but I haven&#8217;t. It&#8217;s just been very blustery with a bit of rain.<\/p>\n<p>The walk home tonight was brutal. I had needle-like slivers of rain slicing at my face while I walked into a wall of wind. It took me twice as long to claw my way home, and I arrived out of breath with tears streaming down my face from the exertion and burning lungs. And this after an absurdly busy shift. I am wiped!<\/p>\n<p>*this post was interrupted by the sound of something crashing outside*<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m back from checking out what made the noise. I found one of the empty garbage cans rolling around near the back of my car. That might not sound impressive to the average reader. But <a href=\"http:\/\/croftsmexico.blogspot.com\">Croft and Norma<\/a> will know that this means the can jumped from its enclosed perch and then rolled something like 20ft.<\/p>\n<p>*this post was once again interrupted by the sound of dishes crashing in the cupboard after Miranda was rocked by another violent gust of wind*<\/p>\n<p>Whew, nothing&#8217;s broken. It&#8217;s scary out there!<\/p>\n<p>Norma, your daffodils are coming up and were doing okay this afternoon, bent by the wind but not broken. I&#8217;ll assess the damage in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, daffodils in early March, then this. Crazy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two days have been absolutely nasty. I can&#8217;t believe the drops in temperature when I was hiking in shorts and a tee-shirt in January! Some people have reported seeing snow, but I haven&#8217;t. It&#8217;s just been very blustery with a bit of rain. The walk home tonight was brutal. I had needle-like slivers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,1085,632,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-campbell-river-vancouver-island-bc-canada-travel-bc-canada-travel","category-canada","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}