{"id":2093,"date":"2012-06-15T03:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T03:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/15\/2012-6-15-twitter-dust-storm-html\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T03:56:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T03:56:38","slug":"2012-6-15-twitter-dust-storm-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/2012-6-15-twitter-dust-storm-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Dust Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/be\/Haboob2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/be\/Haboob2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A lovely centered picture with a funny name.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFriends,<\/p>\n<p>Arizona&#8217;s Department of Transportation thought it&#8217;d be neat to raise awareness about the danger of driving in blinding dust storms by soliciting haikus on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/realtime\/%23HaboobHaiku\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. This idea is as dumb as helping an old lady across the street by updating your Facebook status, so I naturally joined in\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Arizona bakes<br \/>\nTemps char drippings on the floor<br \/>\nLock doors, self-cleaning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My next effort was mentioned on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/yourcommunity\/2012\/06\/arizonas-haboob-haiku-campaign-takes-twitter-by-dust-storm.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News Community Blog<\/a> in a post trying to explain the thing to Canadians. You&#8217;re welcome, Canadians!<\/p>\n<p>Also, Arizona. Gross.<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Arizona&#8217;s Department of Transportation thought it&#8217;d be neat to raise awareness about the danger of driving in blinding dust storms by soliciting haikus on Twitter. This idea is as dumb as helping an old lady across the street by updating your Facebook status, so I naturally joined in\u2026 Arizona bakes Temps char drippings on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/2012-6-15-twitter-dust-storm-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twitter Dust Storm&#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":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-amazing-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","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=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}