{"id":1907,"date":"2011-02-01T20:24:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:52:07","slug":"snowpocalypse-2011-700-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=1907","title":{"rendered":"Snowpocalypse 2011: 7:00 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about blizzards is that they insist on happening in the winter, so if they happen in the evening hours, it&#8217;s too dark to see much.  Like so:<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1908\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1908\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-7pm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The scene outside the front door at 7 p.m.\" title=\"2-11-7pm\" width=\"456\" height=\"342\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1908\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-7pm-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-7pm.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scene outside the front door at 7 p.m.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nBut there, for what its worth, is a pretty good depiction of what is happening right now: it&#8217;s snowing, and there is more snow on the ground than there was when I photographed this scene at 4:00 p.m., but not a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty windy and drifting, so I also took a photo of the drift against the front door.  It&#8217;s mere inches high right now, so I&#8217;m interested in seeing where it is by morning.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-7pmdoordrift-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2-11-7pmdoordrift\" title=\"2-11-7pmdoordrift\" width=\"456\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1909\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-7pmdoordrift-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2-11-7pmdoordrift.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><br \/>\nIf the fact that I am taking photos of minor snowdrift against the door isn&#8217;t enough of a clue, I&#8217;ll just state it outright: This is really a pretty boring thing right now.  We might have snow thunder later, which might be cool to see, but I might well be asleep when it happens.  The hour-by-hour forecast for my area now calls for the blizzard to really set in at midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about blizzards is that they insist on happening in the winter, so if they happen in the evening hours, it&#8217;s too dark to see much. Like so: But there, for what its worth, is a pretty good depiction of what is happening right now: it&#8217;s snowing, and there is more snow on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[493,494,495,2869,491,490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7164,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/7164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}