{"id":6023,"date":"2018-04-08T21:47:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T02:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2018-04-10T07:05:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T12:05:29","slug":"this-is-about-how-bleak-i-feel-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6023","title":{"rendered":"(Updated) This is about how bleak I feel right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2018\/04\/windmill_54921-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2018\/04\/windmill_54921-3-500x334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2018\/04\/windmill_54921-3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2018\/04\/windmill_54921-3-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2018\/04\/windmill_54921-3-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Well, actually this photo has more color than it should if I want it to convey my frustration with this continued wintery weather.\u00a0 I should be riding motorcycles to work and doing all kinds of other fun Spring things, and I&#8217;m craving some green vegetation as well.\u00a0 Now I hear there&#8217;s a chance for <em>another<\/em> winter storm next weekend&#8230;well, that&#8217;s just fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you know what?\u00a0 In that case, let&#8217;s make it a MONSTER.\u00a0 I&#8217;m talking Spring 1997.\u00a0 If we have to put up with this kind of meteorological nonsense, then let&#8217;s go all-in.\u00a0 I want ten feet of snow, delivered sideways.\u00a0 In fact, I <em>dare <\/em>Mother Nature (whom I don&#8217;t believe in) to hit me with your best shot.\u00a0 Yeah, that&#8217;s right&#8230;a Pat Benatar reference.\u00a0 Bring it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(UPDATE):<\/strong> There will be no winter storm in the Bismarck-Mandan area.\u00a0 How do I know?\u00a0 Simple&#8230;I stretched the main belt in my snowblower last weekend, and had to spend a ridiculous amount to get new belts (one replacement, one spare) shipped here before the upcoming weekend and predicted storm.\u00a0 As soon as I did that, the forecast models began nudging the area of heaviest snow southward.\u00a0 If I just run out and by a sled we&#8217;ll be totally in the clear.\u00a0 Maybe I should set up a GoFundMe&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, actually this photo has more color than it should if I want it to convey my frustration with this continued wintery weather.\u00a0 I should be riding motorcycles to work and doing all kinds of other fun Spring things, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=6023\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6026,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}