{"id":2535,"date":"2014-05-11T18:54:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T23:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2014-05-11T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T00:08:24","slug":"life-in-the-middle-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/2014\/05\/11\/life-in-the-middle-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Middle West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"severe weather by Evets1965, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/75744794@N03\/13977891627\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7351\/13977891627_fffb8b9b82_z.jpg\" alt=\"severe weather\" width=\"552\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m watching the storm predictors on the news, with tornado reports and wall clouds about 30 miles to the southwest, and bemoaning our decision to miss our daughter&#8217;s <em>Carmina Burana<\/em> performance with 350 vocalists at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omahaperformingarts.org\/holland-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">Omaha&#8217;s Holland Performing Arts Center<\/a>. These are tough decisions that need to be made, probably a half dozen times per severe-weather-season. But leaving a 12 year old home alone with incoming storms that have knocked down buildings on route to Omaha is not an option. Nature, it seems, has its own agenda, and doesn&#8217;t include man&#8217;s artistic preferences.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Tornado warning and we are hunkered down in the basement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching the storm predictors on the news, with tornado reports and wall clouds about 30 miles to the southwest, and bemoaning our decision to miss our daughter&#8217;s Carmina Burana performance with 350 vocalists at Omaha&#8217;s Holland Performing Arts Center. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/2014\/05\/11\/life-in-the-middle-west\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1054,1057,1058,1056,1055,1059,1050,1051,1052,1053],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carmina-burana","tag-hail","tag-lightning","tag-music","tag-performing-arts","tag-severe-weather","tag-thunderstorms","tag-tornados","tag-warnings","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/stevecaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}