{"id":23606,"date":"2014-01-03T08:46:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=23606"},"modified":"2014-01-03T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T14:46:25","slug":"cold-january-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2014\/cold-january-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold January Haiku."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cold January
\nSnow covers the bbq.
\nMore cold predicted.
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\nHappy New Year! See what the New Year brought us? I’m in DuPage county which relative to other places didn’t “get hit”. My mom’s in Lake County. Libertyville supposedly got 16″.<\/p>\n

We spent New Years Day retrieving Cosmo from the animal hospital in Aurora Illinois. Driving conditions were icy but the streets were plowed and traffic was light. We were glad to get him back home. He’s now weak, but cuddly. I’m checking our poor diabetic but affectionate fur-lump regularly. <\/p>\n

Needless to say he is not going outdoors. Neither is the other cat (though he has the option. The cat door still works.)<\/p>\n

(For those wondering: This time it was a bladder\/urethral issue.) <\/p>\n

Yesterday Argonne National Lab closed for snow. So Jim and I both hovered over the poor fur lump and watched lots of Netflix while petting him. The other cat came by and demanded lots of treats. He would then return to “guard” the cat door in case some other critter braved the snow and tried to take shelter in our house. (That’s how that cat came to be ours in the first place.)<\/p>\n

What’s the weather like where you are? I’m hearing rumors parts of Lake Michigan are freezing up this year<\/a> but still no stories showing ice fishing huts which appeared often in the 70s. There’s still time though. The meteorologists are predicting ‘Dangerous cold moves in after lake-effect snow’.<\/a><\/p>\n

This weather is giving me horrible 70s flashbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cold January Snow covers the bbq. More cold predicted. Happy New Year! See what the New Year brought us? I’m in DuPage county which relative to other places didn’t “get hit”. My mom’s in Lake County. Libertyville supposedly got 16″. We spent New Years Day retrieving Cosmo from the animal hospital in Aurora Illinois. Driving … Continue reading Cold January Haiku.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}