{"id":2396,"date":"2010-01-27T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2010-01-27T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:21:00","slug":"go-away-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2396","title":{"rendered":"Go away, snow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/DadAF.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/DadAF-thumb.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"><\/a>I hope it doesn&#8217;t snow this weekend.  I KNOW!  Shocking, coming from me.<\/p>\n<p>It is no great secret that I love the snow.  It fills me with such joy and anticipation, I feel happy and alive, like I&#8217;m ten years old again.  And there are certain rituals one must perform when there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/weather.terribennett.com\/cgi-bin\/findweather\/getForecast?query=28210&#038;wuSelect=WEATHER\" target=\"blank\">snow in the forecast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To bring on the snow, you must drink hot cocoa.  I make mine from scratch, with unsweetened cocoa, sugar, milk, and a dash of salt.  Marshmallows are a bonus.  There is also a snow dance which may be performed.  Any little edge that we can get down here in NC to bring on the snow is helpful.<\/p>\n<p>This Friday night, the chance of snow is about 90 percent.  But this weekend is my father&#8217;s birthday, and my father HATES the snow.  Haaaaaaaates.  Ever since an incident as a young man in the Air Force up in Alaska, the thought of the wintry weather has filled him with dread.  And while I love the snow, it goes without saying that I love my father more.  And snow on his birthday would be the worst birthday present ever.<\/p>\n<p>And so for the next four days, I will forego the cocoa.  I will hide the marshmallows.  I will keep my happy feet planted firmly on the ground.  This I do for my wonderful, sweet dad.<\/p>\n<p>Come Monday, though, all bets are off.<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope it doesn&#8217;t snow this weekend. I KNOW! Shocking, coming from me. It is no great secret that I love the snow. It fills me with such joy and anticipation, I feel happy and alive, like I&#8217;m ten years old again. And there are certain rituals one must perform when there&#8217;s snow in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}