{"id":107,"date":"2005-03-30T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2005-03-31T03:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=107"},"modified":"2005-09-29T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T20:39:08","slug":"first-spring-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2005\/03\/30\/first-spring-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"First spring storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow\"><a href=\"..\/wpimage\/IMG_5587.sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wpimage\/IMG_5587.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"stormy\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was kicking myself at about 11 o&#8217;clock today.  The sun was shining bright, and there wasn&#8217;t a cloud in the sky.  It was 70 degrees out.  I would&#8217;ve ridden my bike to work if I thought it was going to turn out that nice, but the forecast called for thunderstorms.  I thought the weatherman had fooled me again.<\/p>\n<p>But in the space of half an hour a wide gray sheet of higher-level clouds started to roll in from the west.  Shortly thereafter, larger, lower, nastier-looking clouds followed along and the wind picked up to a dull roar.  Deadwood fell from the trees, and the last dry leaves of fall raced down the streets and across open lots following jagged, frenzied paths.<\/p>\n<p>I was just picking Leah up from daycare when the full force of the storm blew through.  It was a beauty.  Even bereft of leaves, the scraggly canopies of the trees near the daycare whipped back and forth and bent against the force of the gale.  After a couple seconds the rain began to fall in sheets of huge, heavy drops that flew vertically through the air.<\/p>\n<p>It was all tremendously exciting.  And brief.  After only a couple minutes, the rain had stopped, and the sky brightened in the west.  I was hoping my flowers at home had enjoyed at least a small drink.  Every day another sign that summer is right around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was kicking myself at about 11 o&#8217;clock today. The sun was shining bright, and there wasn&#8217;t a cloud in the sky. It was 70 degrees out. I would&#8217;ve ridden my bike to work if I thought it was going to turn out that nice, but the forecast called for thunderstorms. I thought the weatherman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-1J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}