{"id":369,"date":"2009-02-02T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T08:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2009\/02\/02\/snow_stopper\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T08:20:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T08:20:20","slug":"snow_stopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2009\/02\/02\/snow_stopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow stopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is <em>completely<\/em> justified since crystals are a central topic at <em>Reciprocal Space<\/em> and I awoke this morning to a landscape covered with them:<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sc63\/3247060192\/\" title=\"WW-winter by sc63, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3131\/3247060192_99b27404c0.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"WW-winter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tSnow has the wonderful property of making the world look fresh and new. Even the disaster area known locally as &#8216;our back garden&#8217; manages to look appealing under its cold white blanket.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe schools are closed so the kids are delighted and, as I type, champing at the bit to get outside. There&#8217;s only about 6 inches, which is <em>nothing<\/em> in Finnish, Torontoan or Bostonian terms, but round here life has ground to a halt. There are no trains into London. The weather even seems to have crashed the web-site of Southeastern Trains:<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sc63\/3247059976\/\" title=\"SE-trains by sc63, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3102\/3247059976_477d6bda0c_o.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"78\" alt=\"SE-trains\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tLooks like I&#8217;ll be working from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is completely justified since crystals are a central topic at Reciprocal Space and I awoke this morning to a landscape covered with them: Snow has the wonderful property of making the world look fresh and new. Even the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2009\/02\/02\/snow_stopper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}