{"id":1207,"date":"2009-02-28T18:24:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T00:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2009-02-28T18:24:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T00:24:22","slug":"blo-sno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2009\/02\/28\/blo-sno\/","title":{"rendered":"BLO SNO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/planet-of-the-apes\/r06-terror-on-ice-mountain.jpg\" alt=\"Planet of the snowy animated apes\" class=alignright \/>The sight of snow blowing practically sideways today was an interesting counterpoint to the impressive (and just a little bit scary) lightning show not even 24 hours earlier.  Nothing&#8217;s really making travel impossible here, it&#8217;s just nice to look at.  Anyway, it reminded me of the early days of the Weather Channel, when &#8220;blowing snow&#8221; as a weather condition was displayed by the automated local forecast gadget as:  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>BLO SNO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which I always found inordinately funny for some reason.  \ud83d\ude06  Just one of those things.  Obviously, their technology has moved on quite a bit, but if you, like me, are a sad enough geek that you actually pine for the Weather Channel&#8217;s less technologically advanced days, or, for that matter, a sad enough geek that you pine for anything involving the Weather Channel at all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twcclassics.com\/\">visit this site<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s kinda cool.  And geeky and sad, all at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sight of snow blowing practically sideways today was an interesting counterpoint to the impressive (and just a little bit scary) lightning show not even 24 hours earlier. Nothing&#8217;s really making travel impossible here, it&#8217;s just nice to look at. Anyway, it reminded me of the early days of the Weather Channel, when &#8220;blowing snow&#8221; as a weather condition was displayed by the automated local forecast gadget as:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetology","category-should-we-talk-about-the-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}