{"id":525,"date":"2007-01-11T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T22:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2013-08-27T07:18:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:18:13","slug":"seattle-snow-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/seattle-snow-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Snow Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/70092316@N00\/354223386\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Sledding Hill, Volunteer Park\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/129\/354223386_4280150b2d.jpg\" width=\"559\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Friends tried to convince me that the thing I needed to do on this lovely snowflocked morning was this: Get in my car and drive to Redmond, home of a Large Software Corporation (LSC), and take pictures of the campus. I do believe it was beautiful there, the grounds at LSC can be lovely and I&#8217;m sure that they were especially lovely covered in snow.<\/p>\n<p>However, a walk through our neighborhood revealed plenty of sparkle. I didn&#8217;t even know we <em>had<\/em> a sledding hill here on Capitol Hill, but we do, we do! It&#8217;s right behind SAM in Volunteer Park and free from cars. This might have been a better pick for the two bundled in pink little girls who chose to sled in the alley this morning, though I certainly laughed out loud when I heard them squealing with glee outside my house.<\/p>\n<p>A stroll along 15th put us in contact with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticalexponent.org\/blog\/\">many<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bikenerd.blogspot.com\/index.html\">behatted<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.furiousseasons.com\/\">neighbors<\/a>, taking advantage of this rare sunshine to get a cup of coffee or cocoa at one or our local java joints. Laptop users were outnumbered at Victrola by People Just Visiting. It&#8217;s icy out there, boys and girls, so watch your step, and bundle up, but for the love of god, get out there in the sunshine!<\/p>\n<p>Speakers on. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbneal.com\/wav\/tvthemes\/mrrogers.wav\">Now, it&#8217;s a beautiful day in the neighborhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends tried to convince me that the thing I needed to do on this lovely snowflocked morning was this: Get in my car and drive to Redmond, home of a Large Software Corporation (LSC), and take pictures of the campus. I do believe it was beautiful there, the grounds at LSC can be lovely and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Seattle Snow Day\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/seattle-snow-day\/#more-525\" aria-label=\"Read more about Seattle Snow Day\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[776,331],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","tag-seattle","tag-snow","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8105,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/8105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}