{"id":858,"date":"2006-12-19T13:15:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=604"},"modified":"2006-12-19T13:15:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T18:15:06","slug":"weird-ottawa-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"WEIRD Ottawa weather."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I&#8217;m still in disbelief that we are going to have a green Christmas.\u00a0 I think it sucks.\u00a0\u00a0I don&#8217;t ski or snowboard (or even skate &#8211; yes, it&#8217;s embarrassing&#8230;but I got skates for Christmas last year and I plan to learn, with vigor, this winter), so you wouldn&#8217;t think the lack of snow would bother me, but it does.\u00a0 I&#8217;m Canadian and I like my winters white.\u00a0 That&#8217;s just how it works.\u00a0 Plus, how am I going to pull off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=14\">Operation Snowman<\/a> 2 without any snowmen to stalk?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as I sit here looking out the window, I keep getting false hope.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll start to &#8216;snow&#8217; (really just flurries), and then the sun comes right out to melt whatever actually stayed on the ground.\u00a0 It&#8217;s already happened a few times today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then, all of a sudden I heard some &#8216;pinging&#8217; on the window.\u00a0 When I looked outside, it was hailing!\u00a0 Hailing hard.\u00a0 What the heck?\u00a0 The sun was beaming just moments ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s bizarre.\u00a0 And indecisive.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t Mother Nature make up her damn mind&#8230;and send some real snow here while she&#8217;s at it?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_0001sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0001sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image601\" style=\"height: 158px\" height=\"158\" alt=\"dsc_0001sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0001sm.jpg\" width=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_0004sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0004sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image603\" style=\"height: 166px\" height=\"166\" alt=\"dsc_0004sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0004sm.jpg\" width=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"dsc_0003sm.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0003sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image602\" style=\"height: 171px\" height=\"171\" alt=\"dsc_0003sm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/dsc_0003sm.jpg\" width=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And as I close off this post, the sun is out again.\u00a0 Pick an element already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I&#8217;m still in disbelief that we are going to have a green Christmas.\u00a0 I think it sucks.\u00a0\u00a0I don&#8217;t ski or snowboard (or even skate &#8211; yes, it&#8217;s embarrassing&#8230;but I got skates for Christmas last year and I plan to learn, with vigor, this winter), so you wouldn&#8217;t think the lack of snow would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[37,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}