{"id":2309,"date":"2008-12-15T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T07:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2008-12-15T23:13:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T07:13:16","slug":"ice-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2309","title":{"rendered":"Ice day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The streets outside are a sheet of ice. I guess you can drive on it (people made it to the gym OK) but I also saw a guy in a Jeep Cherokee doing 35MPH on a residential street while talking on his cell phone slide through an intersection when he couldn&#8217;t stop in time. Guys like that are the reason I don&#8217;t like going out in this weather.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot colder than it usually gets here, and windy as well. There haven&#8217;t been as many people sledding because of that so I didn&#8217;t have to hear them all night. I did end up with a broken beer bottle in my driveway so the responsibility level hasn&#8217;t gone up much. In fact, the kids are getting more speed sledding down the icy street. Jay the Contractor tried to drive up the street and quickly honked at a kid and got flipped off by one of the parents. I mean, really, Jay is trying to get to work. Get the hell out of his way. The contractors next door were there all day as well. This is one of the reasons I never wanted to work for myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The streets outside are a sheet of ice. I guess you can drive on it (people made it to the gym OK) but I also saw a guy in a Jeep Cherokee doing 35MPH on a residential street while talking on his cell phone slide through an intersection when he couldn&#8217;t stop in time. Guys like that are the reason I don&#8217;t like going out in this weather. It&#8217;s a lot colder than it usually gets here, and windy as well. There haven&#8217;t been as many people sledding because of that so I didn&#8217;t have to hear them all night. I did end up with a broken beer bottle in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ice day.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}