{"id":1387,"date":"2010-01-07T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/07\/and-how-cold-is-it"},"modified":"2010-01-07T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T14:06:00","slug":"and-how-cold-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"And how cold is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>My wife made an insightful observation this morning at breakfast while listening to the quiet chatter among patrons and staff of the Pancake Station restaurant on Virginia Circle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wonder,&#8221; she said, &#8220;if people in Alaska talk about the cold weather.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, it seems that the Arctic blast that blew in Wednesday evening has everyone in the Panhandle talking today about one thing: the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as a corollary to her thought, I offer this: If Alaskans do talk about the cold weather, how cold does it need to get before people discuss it? Yes, it&#8217;s mighty cold in Amarillo this morning, with wind chill factors around 10-below zero.<\/p>\n<p>To those in, say, Point Barrow, that must seem like swimsuit weather this time of year.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife made an insightful observation this morning at breakfast while listening to the quiet chatter among patrons and staff of the Pancake Station restaurant on Virginia Circle. &#8220;I wonder,&#8221; she said, &#8220;if people in Alaska talk about the cold weather.&#8221; Yep, it seems that the Arctic blast that blew in Wednesday evening has everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1387\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And how cold is it?<\/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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}