{"id":460,"date":"2004-12-16T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=460"},"modified":"2006-10-08T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T11:26:32","slug":"478-of-the-better-part-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"[458] Of the better part of winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t wait to wade through 3 exams and then drive all the way from Michigan to Florida and see the sun all over again. But I must admit, in spite of the cold, with the blue sky and the white snow, it&#8217;s beautiful here. At least, I think it&#8217;s beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>And I see a lot of people like the snow, despite the fact that they whine about how bad the winter in Michigan is.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/121604-%282%29.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The photo was taken in front of the Michigan&#8217;s School of Natural Resources and the Environment. On second thought, I don&#8217;t know why I took a photo related to the sewer.p\/s &#8211; a cool <a href=\"http:\/\/epic.chalksidewalk.com\/\">flash presentation<\/a>. I am not sure whether it is a good or a scary future. Then again, the future is always scary, utopia and dystopia alike. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffooi.com\/\">Screenshots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; <em>Ira furor brevis est<\/em>. People need to learn how to cool their heads off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t wait to wade through 3 exams and then drive all the way from Michigan to Florida and see the sun all over again. But I must admit, in spite of the cold, with the blue sky and the white snow, it&#8217;s beautiful here. At least, I think it&#8217;s beautiful. And I see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-personal","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}