{"id":195,"date":"2003-12-05T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/?p=195"},"modified":"2003-12-05T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T16:19:00","slug":"winter-is-finally-here-today-marks-the-first-sno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/05\/winter-is-finally-here-today-marks-the-first-sno","title":{"rendered":"Winter is finally here. Today marks the first sno&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter is finally here.  Today marks the first snowstorm of the season.  As I was driving to work today, I realized that snow is really beautiful in its own way.  If only it could just be pretty for a while then melt away, everything would be so good.  The problem really start  to happen when it accumulates &#8211; the roads and sidewalks become really slippery, traffic builds up, and driveways start to need shovelling.<\/p>\n<p>This is why Aileen and I are starting to think about moving away from Pittsburgh and move somewhere more temperate.  I really wouldn&#8217;t mind snow every once in a while, as long as the average temperature is not ice-cold freezing.   Our tropical bodies just don&#8217;t go too well with the steel city weather.<\/p>\n<p>Some places we&#8217;re considering are Florida and Texas, where the climate seems to be perfect for what we&#8217;re looking for.  A definite plus also is that we have relatives in that part of the States.   We&#8217;re not closed off to looking at other places though, as long as it&#8217;s less chilly than here.<\/p>\n<p>If only there were a place where it only snows on Christmas day,  that place would be perfect.  If you know of a place like that, please let us know.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter is finally here. Today marks the first snowstorm of the season. As I was driving to work today, I realized that snow is really beautiful in its own way. If only it could just be pretty for a while then melt away, everything would be so good. The problem really start to happen when [&hellip;]<\/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-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}