{"id":8229,"date":"2012-02-02T21:53:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T02:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2012-02-02T21:53:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T02:53:04","slug":"seeing-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8229","title":{"rendered":"Seeing shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/6738116131\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7016\/6738116131_6e6b6ddaaf.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The weather was a little colder today &#8212; naturally on a day when I finally wore a lighter coat &#8212; but it was still remarkably unlike today last year. I remembered watching <i>Groundhog Day<\/i> last Groundhog Day &#8212; and remember when that was just a funny movie, not some weird cultural touchstone everyone had to reference? &#8212; but I was a little surprised to re-discover that I&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5949\">stayed home because of an ice storm<\/a>. Last winter was actually kind of ridiculous, but it&#8217;s still amazing, a year later, to see that I wrote things like &#8220;I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m <i>really<\/i> kind of sick of snow at this point&#8221; &#8212; considering that we&#8217;ve had practically none this year.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I <i>have<\/i> had plenty of this year &#8212; and how&#8217;s that for a segue? &#8212; is meetings. Today was no exception, with a morning meeting and then afternoon lunch (free pizza!), where we were encouraged to mingle with our co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I have any meetings planned for tomorrow, but I also don&#8217;t have any ice storms planned to save me from them should one occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather was a little colder today &#8212; naturally on a day when I finally wore a lighter coat &#8212; but it was still remarkably unlike today last year. I remembered watching Groundhog Day last Groundhog Day &#8212; and remember when that was just a funny movie, not some weird cultural touchstone everyone had to &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8229\">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":[],"tags":[28,114,52],"class_list":["post-8229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-weather","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229"}],"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=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}