{"id":1115,"date":"2009-12-21T22:24:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2010-01-26T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:20:13","slug":"glorious_snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/glorious_snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Glorious snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imagecontainer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Snow_5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">This morning<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe snow came last weekend. It stayed, which was a pleasant surprise. Then we had more on Thursday, and a little bit more again yesterday, so by now we have lots and lots of it. It&rsquo;s the best kind of snow, too: cold and powdery, which gathers into beautiful drifts and gets pounded into a solid flooring, rather than turning into slush.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Another reason to be happy about living in a suburb: in the city it&rsquo;s all become brown sand-blended mush already, with all the disadvantages and none of the advantages of snow.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOut here it is splendid, gorgeous, glorious. The moment I step outside the door in the morning, the snow lifts my spirits. The world around me is light and beautiful again. There hasn&rsquo;t been much wind since the middle of last week, so the bushes and trees are all heavy with snow &ndash; lovely shapes and great contrasts. The snow lights up the clouds, even the dark and overcast sky above looks soft and shimmering. With the Christmas lights everywhere, it really does look like a wonderland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning The snow came last weekend. It stayed, which was a pleasant surprise. Then we had more on Thursday, and a little bit more again yesterday, so by now we have lots and lots of it. It&rsquo;s the best kind of snow, too: cold and powdery, which gathers into beautiful drifts and gets pounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[66,105,234,96,95,85],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else","tag-photo","tag-snow","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}