{"id":11032,"date":"2014-01-07T23:07:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T04:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11032"},"modified":"2014-01-07T23:07:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T04:07:52","slug":"polar-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11032","title":{"rendered":"Polar vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/11830352146\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7383\/11830352146_671a44c463_z.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It got very cold today, although how much of that was due to the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/01\/07\/260455201\/what-is-the-polar-vortex-and-why-is-it-doing-this-to-us\">polar vortex<\/a> I really couldn&#8217;t say. All I know is, it never got warmer than ten degrees today.<\/p>\n<p>But at least our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11030\">little bug problem<\/a> at the office seems to have been taken care of.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I finished reading the young adult novel <i>All the Lovely Bad Ones<\/i> by Mary Downing Hahn. It was a Christmas present, not one I would have chosen for myself, but&#8230;well, here&#8217;s what I wrote over on Goodreads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If I had discovered the book, or one like it, some thirty years ago, when I was squarely in its young-reader audience, I think I might have liked it better. And yet it&#8217;s not exactly exciting or engaging by those standards, nor especially scary, at least not once it becomes apparent that it&#8217;s going to follow a very predictable route. It&#8217;s a quick read, however, and while there&#8217;s little to no character development, the characters themselves are likable enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that was Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It got very cold today, although how much of that was due to the so-called polar vortex I really couldn&#8217;t say. All I know is, it never got warmer than ten degrees today. But at least our little bug problem at the office seems to have been taken care of. Meanwhile, I finished reading the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11032\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,28,114,52],"class_list":["post-11032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-personal","tag-weather","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11033,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions\/11033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}