{"id":609,"date":"2015-03-06T19:56:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2015-03-06T19:57:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:57:15","slug":"609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"All snow and no play&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of snow outside my house right now is beyond ridiculous. This storm has now not only cost me money and time but has cut into my son&#8217;s birthday festivities and that is unacceptable. Global warming has forsaken us yet again.<\/p>\n<p>At this point allow me now to posit a different scientific theory. I&#8217;m no adherent to theories of global warming, of course, but I have noticed over 32 years of life there have been changes in winter weather patterns. For example, when I was a kid it seemed to be coldest in December and January. In February it started to warm up by the end of the month and March I considered springtime. In the past 10 or 15 years I&#8217;ve considered December more and more to be just a continued version of late autumn and winter weather to have extended into March. Seriously, winter has been shifting over the past decade or more and by 2015 it&#8217;s extremely noticeable. This is the second winter in a row we&#8217;ve had a major snowstorm (actually two last year) in March. And I live in Virginia! I&#8217;m convinced that we miscalculated time somehow and are now off by several weeks on the &#8220;real&#8221; day of the year. To my estimation it&#8217;s still the middle of February and we should adjust our calendars thusly. Sound ridiculous? They did it in 1752. And they&#8217;re always adding in leap seconds and leap minutes they just don&#8217;t tell you about. Today&#8217;s February 15. Who&#8217;s with me?<\/p>\n<p>And I really think I have been cooped up inside too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of snow outside my house right now is beyond ridiculous. This storm has now not only cost me money and time but has cut into my son&#8217;s birthday festivities and that is unacceptable. Global warming has forsaken us &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}