{"id":33987,"date":"2016-01-15T07:28:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T13:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=33987"},"modified":"2016-01-15T07:28:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T13:28:40","slug":"a-snowman-will-want-to-be-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=33987","title":{"rendered":"A Snowman Will Want to Be Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yule \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Stock Show Moon<\/p>\n<p>You wanna find Stock Show weather? Go to Minnesota this weekend. Friend Tom Crane sent me a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mprnews.org\/updraft\/\">Updraft<\/a> blog of MPRNews. &#8220;Thought you might want to know what you&#8217;re missing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weather-January-16-17-2016.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33988\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33988 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weather-January-16-17-2016-744x558.png\" alt=\"Weather January 16, 17 2016\" width=\"744\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weather-January-16-17-2016-744x558.png 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weather-January-16-17-2016-420x315.png 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weather-January-16-17-2016-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Weather-January-16-17-2016.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Huttner, the meteorologist for the Updraft blog, repeated a Minnesota weather nostrum often used at times like these: &#8220;The only thing between Minnesota and the North Pole is a barbed wire fence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Minnesota, not often, but often enough, you realized the weather could kill you. No winds necessary. This will be one of this times.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado, at least for us so far, doesn&#8217;t produce weather like this. If you go higher in altitude, then yes, you can find extreme winter cold, but even at 8,800 feet nothing like this. Can&#8217;t say I miss that bitter cold. though looking out the window from a warm house, over a snowy frozen landscape has its charms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yule \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Stock Show Moon You wanna find Stock Show weather? Go to Minnesota &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=33987\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Snowman Will Want to Be Inside<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,246,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-minnesota","category-weather-climate","category-woolly-mammoths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33989,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33987\/revisions\/33989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}