{"id":21740,"date":"2010-01-06T03:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T10:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2016-09-13T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:19:10","slug":"a-most-peculiar-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-most-peculiar-january\/","title":{"rendered":"A Most Peculiar January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the world where I grew up, winter was a bleak, cold, and white month. There were exceptions; I remember being able to go for a long, non-icy, run on a day in mid-January, but, generally, there was very little to recommend about January.<\/p>\n<p>Last year in Surrey, <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=667\">January was sodden<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know if the last few days will set a pattern for the month, but only one word thus far applies to January 2010 in Campbell River: mild.<\/p>\n<p>At home, the heat is on low just to cut the dampness, I&#8217;ve switched back to summer bedding, and I can actually hang out in bare feet. At work, I do my outside chores very comfortably in only my long sleeve tee-shirt if it&#8217;s not raining.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I&#8217;m completely mystified by the Campbell Riverites who come into the store bundled up for doomsday, teeth chattering, and full of complaints about how cold it is outside!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s presently 4 degrees at 2AM and the forecast ahead is just going to get warmer and warmer; we might even reach the double digits next week!<\/p>\n<p>Even with the few weeks I had in Oliver last year, I&#8217;m starting to forget what real cold is, although I&#8217;m pretty sure that the -27 in Dawson City tonight is unpleasant. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world where I grew up, winter was a bleak, cold, and white month. There were exceptions; I remember being able to go for a long, non-icy, run on a day in mid-January, but, generally, there was very little to recommend about January. Last year in Surrey, January was sodden. I don&#8217;t know if [&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-21740","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":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}