{"id":221,"date":"2009-01-13T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2009\/01\/its-cold.html"},"modified":"2009-01-13T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T13:44:00","slug":"its-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2009\/01\/its-cold.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is very very cold.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so cold that salt doesn&#8217;t melt the snow off the roads, so they&#8217;re switching to sand in the hopes of preventing even more spin-outs, flipped cars, and other nastiness.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so cold that antifreeze-infused windshield wiper fluid freezes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so cold that when I blink, my eyes freeze shut just a little bit, so that every time I open them again it feels a little like lifting a foot up off of a sticky movie theater floor.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so cold that exposed skin will become frost-bitten within 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so cold that they tell us, &#8220;If you must travel today, be sure to pack your winter survival kit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have no such kit. I didn&#8217;t know such a kit existed. But I duly cancelled my appointment 30 minutes north of here. I don&#8217;t want to die for the sake of new contact lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is very very cold. It&#8217;s so cold that salt doesn&#8217;t melt the snow off the roads, so they&#8217;re switching to sand in the hopes of preventing even more spin-outs, flipped cars, and other nastiness. It&#8217;s so cold that antifreeze-infused windshield wiper fluid freezes. It&#8217;s so cold that when I blink, my eyes freeze shut &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2009\/01\/its-cold.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Cold<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portraits-of-people-and-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}