{"id":262,"date":"2010-01-13T19:55:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=262"},"modified":"2010-01-13T19:55:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:55:28","slug":"the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/13\/the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m often in two minds about discussing the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Weather\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weather\">weather<\/a>. For one thing, it&#8217;s so fleeting &#8211; one sunny moment in this country could be closely followed by a raging storm. For another, it&#8217;s deeply personal &#8211; I love autumnal weather the most for it&#8217;s rich variety and colourful beauty. But the main reason I despair of weather based writing is that it&#8217;s tediously repetitive.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re currently in the grip of the worst winter of my lifetime. The worst since 1981 (I was born in 1983). Schools are closing for, what I&#8217;m sure seems to many parants, unnecessary reasons. Today, I couldn&#8217;t get to my school to teach &#8211; I, along with many others, couldn&#8217;t even get out of my street. It&#8217;s only my fourth snow based reason for not working in my career. I know people who haven&#8217;t been to school, to teach or learn, this decade yet.<\/p>\n<p>I find the whole thing incredibly frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>(Posted using <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"BlogPress\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/blogpress.coollittlethings.com\/\">BlogPress<\/a> from my <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"iPhone\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"blogpress_location\">Location:<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Highfield%20View,Leeds,United%20Kingdom%4053.758583%2C-1.619904&amp;z=10\">Leeds, United Kingdom<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m often in two minds about discussing the weather. For one thing, it&#8217;s so fleeting &#8211; one sunny moment in this country could be closely followed by a raging storm. For another, it&#8217;s deeply personal &#8211; I love autumnal weather the most for it&#8217;s rich variety and colourful beauty. But the main reason I despair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[92,455,919,1046,1164,1425,1548,1583,3211],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-92","tag-blogpress","tag-dew-point","tag-england","tag-forecasts","tag-history","tag-iphone","tag-january","tag-weather","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-4e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}