{"id":1945,"date":"2010-02-02T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/02\/2010-2-2-happy-marmot-day-html\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T14:43:00","slug":"2010-2-2-happy-marmot-day-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/2010-2-2-happy-marmot-day-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Marmot Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2010\/02\/sarah-palin-marmot-alaska.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/marmot.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Yes Henry, the LA Times has made this political.\" \/><\/a><br \/>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>As you know, I&#8217;ve been railing against the idiocy of Groundhog Day for years and years (<i>forty four of them? -ed<\/i> Not quite, but nice plug.), but now that Alaska has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/stories\/020110\/loc_557504638.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">got into the act<\/a> of rodent-based Winter weather prediction festivals, I think we should just place a moratorium on the whole practice. After all, those <i>kleine vrachtwagens vol van hondsdolheid<\/i> as the Dutch might say, aren&#8217;t slaving over a hot weather map every day like our dear Idyllwild Weather Clam. What do they know?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, As you know, I&#8217;ve been railing against the idiocy of Groundhog Day for years and years (forty four of them? -ed Not quite, but nice plug.), but now that Alaska has got into the act of rodent-based Winter weather prediction festivals, I think we should just place a moratorium on the whole practice. After &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/2010-2-2-happy-marmot-day-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Marmot Day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,26,39],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthday-holiday-season","tag-idyllwild-weather-clam","tag-this-day-in-nonsense"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}