{"id":136,"date":"2011-10-31T07:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2011-10-31T07:36:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:36:38","slug":"well-we-survived-the-great-october-blizzard-of-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/31\/well-we-survived-the-great-october-blizzard-of-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, we survived the Great October Blizzard of &#8217;11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, is wasn&#8217;t bad in Medford &#8211; just a couple of inches that melted as soon as the sun came out on Sunday and no loss of electricity (unlike 800,000 other households in the state).\u00a0 But Worcester was another story &#8211; a full foot and lots of downed electrical lines.\u00a0 As my brother-in-law, who manages the property for me, was snowed in at his cabin where I suspect he got at least 18&#8243; and may be stuck until May (can you say &#8220;Donner&#8221;?), I had to drive out to Worcester to shovel the walk and check for damage.\u00a0 Fortunately, all was fine.\u00a0 Electricity on, no water in the basement.\u00a0 Even the fruit trees, which I feared were going to lose some limbs, made it through unscathed.<\/p>\n<p>I went to a friend&#8217;s house yesterday to watch the Patriots play a miserable game against the Steelers.\u00a0 His neighbor&#8217;s kids had built three small snowmen in their yard.\u00a0 I hope someone puts a jack-o-lantern on one of the bodies.\u00a0 That would make a great photo.<\/p>\n<p>Snow in October! Bah humbug!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, is wasn&#8217;t bad in Medford &#8211; just a couple of inches that melted as soon as the sun came out on Sunday and no loss of electricity (unlike 800,000 other households in the state).\u00a0 But Worcester was another story &#8211; a full foot and lots of downed electrical lines.\u00a0 As my brother-in-law, who manages &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/31\/well-we-survived-the-great-october-blizzard-of-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}