{"id":743,"date":"2006-12-04T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T19:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/04\/it-had-to-happen-eventually\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T19:08:17","slug":"it-had-to-happen-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/it-had-to-happen-eventually\/","title":{"rendered":"It had to happen eventually."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/firstsnow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/12\/_firstsnow.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" alt=\"First Snow 2007\" title=\"First Snow 2007\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the first snow of 2007 is finally falling. You might not be able to tell from that photo, but it&#8217;s really coming down in the big wet flakes. If I have to shovel later, it&#8217;s going to be one of those really heavy loads.<\/p>\n<p>This is the view from our rarely-used sitting room, which clearly shows that I have once again failed to put the canvas lawn chairs away before the first snow.<\/p>\n<p>(On the other hand, this is the first time since I&#8217;ve moved to Nova Scotia where my car actually has the snow tires on <strong>before<\/strong> the snow falls. So I&#8217;m learning something.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Yes, the first snow of 2007 is finally falling. You might not be able to tell from that photo, but it&#8217;s really coming down in the big wet flakes. If I have to shovel later, it&#8217;s going to be one of those really heavy loads. This is the view from our rarely-used sitting room, which clearly shows that I have&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/it-had-to-happen-eventually\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-bZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}