{"id":316,"date":"2004-03-18T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=316"},"modified":"2006-10-08T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T06:00:12","slug":"314-of-the-disappointing-st-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"[314] Of the disappointing St. Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photo was taken a day after St. Patrick Day. I don&#8217;t celebrate St. Patrick Day but the day usually marks the coming of spring. Apparently, this year it marked nothing but more snow. What can I say? Grr and brr!<\/p>\n<p>This is what the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/17\/opinion\/17WED4.html\">New York Times Editorial<\/a> has to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8230;The first flocks of robins are back on the ground, and in the country red-winged blackbirds can be heard in the marshes. Everything is tipping in one direction. And then it snows again. No one is responsible. But it feels like a kind of distributive injustice. There are parts of the world that really need this precipitation. Let them have it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Some rights reserved\" title=\"Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/snowNStPatrick.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Hey!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s St. Patrick Day!<br \/>\nBut hey!<br \/>\nWhy does it snow?p\/s &#8211; maybe we could blame climate change for this eh?<br \/>\npp\/s &#8211; for those of you who are offended by my usage of &#8216;eh&#8217;, I apologize. But you Canadians are just adorable. EH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photo was taken a day after St. Patrick Day. I don&#8217;t celebrate St. Patrick Day but the day usually marks the coming of spring. Apparently, this year it marked nothing but more snow. What can I say? Grr and brr! This is what the New York Times Editorial has to say: &#8230;The first flocks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}