{"id":4909,"date":"2017-01-06T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2017-01-07T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T17:06:06","slug":"old-man-winter-refuses-to-leave-plus-a-little-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"Old Man Winter refuses to leave! Plus, a little good news."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4910\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JOHV501381985_hd.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"4910\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?attachment_id=4910\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JOHV501381985_hd.jpg?fit=1365%2C908\" data-orig-size=\"1365,908\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Jonathan Hayward&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;A woman pushes a stroller on an ice-covered street in Vancouver, Tuesday, Jan.3, 2017. An unusual bout of snowy winter weather has confounded residents of southern British Columbia, resulting in unplowed streets, icy sidewalks and grumbling residents who have to drive or walk in the chaos. THE CANADIAN PRESS\\\/Jonathan Hayward&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1483450066&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"johv501381985_hd\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;A woman pushes a stroller on an ice-covered street in Vancouver, Tuesday, Jan.3, 2017. An unusual bout of snowy winter weather has confounded residents of southern British Columbia, resulting in unplowed streets, icy sidewalks and grumbling residents who have to drive or walk in the chaos. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jonathan Hayward&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JOHV501381985_hd.jpg?fit=300%2C199\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JOHV501381985_hd.jpg?fit=604%2C402\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4910\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JOHV501381985_hd.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"Image: News 1130\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JOHV501381985_hd.jpg?resize=300%2C199 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JOHV501381985_hd.jpg?resize=1024%2C681 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JOHV501381985_hd.jpg?w=1365 1365w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/JOHV501381985_hd.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: News 1130<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vancouverites, including me, are freaking out. Seriously, many sidewalks and streets are frozen over, wreaking injuries and havoc. My livelihood is impacted, especially on snow days when the city goes into virtual lock down. It\u2019s snowing right now. No end in sight. I wish it would remain on the mountains, where it belongs. I keep thinking how this is exactly the weather we needed for the Olympics in 2010, when it rained instead and they were forced to manufacture the white stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose global warming could be causing Vancouver to freeze. Oh well, we must be intrepid. And brave, carry on as best we can, do the things we think we cannot do. I\u2019m trying hard to take life day by day and not freak out. More challenges and upheaval. C\u2019est la vie. Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Some good news; the Zellots record release on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremeecho.com\">Supreme Echo<\/a> appears imminent; in the spring perhaps. I hope! Thanks to\u00a0 supreme human being and music freak Jason Flower.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouverites, including me, are freaking out. Seriously, many sidewalks and streets are frozen over, wreaking injuries and havoc. My livelihood is impacted, especially on snow days when the city goes into virtual lock down. It\u2019s snowing right now. No end in sight. I wish it would remain on the mountains, where it belongs. I keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}