{"id":573890460,"date":"2018-01-05T20:02:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T02:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573890460"},"modified":"2018-01-08T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T20:29:48","slug":"stiiiiiill-frozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2018\/01\/05\/stiiiiiill-frozen\/","title":{"rendered":"Stiiiiiill frozen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I walked back out to more-or-less the same spot I took the picture from yesterday’s post<\/a>. That was actually something I shot on Wednesday, after the Jordan River, which is really a stream, had been frozen for a few days. And today:<\/p>\n

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It is melting this weekend. We’re finally getting above 20 degrees for the first time in weeks. And then the ice will come. <\/p>\n

But that’s for Sunday night and Monday morning. Tonight there’s a trip to the grocery store for drinks, and then another grocery store, for different drinks. This is a thing that happens for us discerning shoppers. One store simply won’t do. <\/p>\n

So I headed north, to the next little town, to get a tea brewed from back home. The tea is made nine miles from where I grew up, actually. They ship it up here by the miracles of interstate commerce and it is sold in exactly two places here. So its a bit of home I enjoy too much. So that one out-of-the-way store has the tea. But I must also pick up some Coke. And this store doesn’t carry the proper variety. <\/p>\n

The very large grocery store, the annoying one with the unseemly parking lot and the large crowds, has the right Coke. It is hecho en Mexico<\/em>. And you can get it for a bulk rate, and use the self checkout system, which is a lifesaver, when you can catch an open unit. If they’re full, you may as well find the longest line with a human checkout. Also, you can get flowers at that store, which I did this evening, because it was Friday and that seemed like a good enough reason for a small bouquet for the kitchen counter. <\/p>\n

Outside, in the shivering, blistering cold, there are six gas pumps and a bunch of people in cars who don’t know how to drive around gas pumps. And now I have drinks for a week, a month of fuel for the car and a few days of colorful petals to enjoy over breakfast and chicken pot pie for dinner tonight. And, also, a weekend. <\/p>\n

Next week classes begin, there will be a lot of new stuff on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>, the return of a great site feature and a lot more. Do enjoy your weekend, but come back soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I walked back out to more-or-less the same spot I took the picture from yesterday’s post. That was actually something I shot on Wednesday, after the Jordan River, which is really a stream, had been frozen for a few days. And today: It is melting this weekend. We’re finally getting above 20 degrees for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573890460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errands","category-friday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573890460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573890463,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573890460\/revisions\/573890463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573890460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573890460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573890460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}