{"id":3251,"date":"2010-12-06T22:18:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T02:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2010-12-06T22:18:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T02:18:50","slug":"winter-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"Winter Wonderland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC01400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"323\" alt=\"DSC01400\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC01400_thumb.jpg\" width=\"430\" border=\"0\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>We got hit by the storm that has been slowly (or not so slowly) crossing North America.&nbsp; It started with large lacy fat snowflakes sailing down from the dark skies.&nbsp; It was very pretty.&nbsp; Like little girls in white lawn dresses doing cartwheels across your front yard.&nbsp; You looked up, and smiled- because there weren&#8217;t enough to worry you and it is December, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Then, without warning they started coming down in flurries and the wind picked up slightly pelting you in the face with decidedly cold little pellets (surely these weren&#8217;t fat and flaky &#8211; they stung a little on contact.&nbsp; And it didn&#8217;t stop for a rest- all night- all day- snow falling- sometimes causing white out conditions.<\/p>\n<p>I was out a little while ago to get the mail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC01402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"322\" alt=\"DSC01402\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC01402_thumb.jpg\" width=\"428\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And it is still snowing.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to shovel out the drive to surprise my husband.<\/p>\n<p>There is at least 10 inches of wet snow and it is heavy.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am wondering if I will be able to get up tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n<p>But- since the storm is supposed to last until noon on Tuesday- <\/p>\n<p>maybe I&#8217;ll just sleep in,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC01403.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"325\" alt=\"DSC01403\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC01403_thumb.jpg\" width=\"432\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC01405.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"305\" alt=\"DSC01405\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC01405_thumb.jpg\" width=\"406\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>For now- I&#8217;m going to take several aspirin and a hot bath.<\/p>\n<p>What was I thinking??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got hit by the storm that has been slowly (or not so slowly) crossing North America.&nbsp; It started with large lacy fat snowflakes sailing down from the dark skies.&nbsp; It was very pretty.&nbsp; Like little girls in white lawn &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=3251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepsonthejourney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}