{"id":19141,"date":"2016-04-25T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=19141"},"modified":"2016-04-27T08:16:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:16:36","slug":"coming-attraction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/coming-attraction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/red.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/red-640x480.png\" alt=\"Red weather\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks like tomorrow will be a good day for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/disillusionment-ten-oclock\" target=\"_blank\">catching tigers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/One-county-away.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/One-county-away.png\" alt=\"One county away\" width=\"617\" height=\"471\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spring has sprung. We should hear the sirens any time now.<\/p>\n<p>Update II: The tornadic storm fizzled out by the time it reached my neighborhood, and all we got was an hour or so of hail, none of it larger than half-dollar diameter.<span id='easy-footnote-1-19141' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/coming-attraction-2\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-19141' title='When is the last time you saw a half-dollar? I can&amp;#8217;t recall the last time I spotted one, and I haven&amp;#8217;t held one in years.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> While this was undoubtedly a great disappointment to tornado aficionados, I have better things to do with the rest of the month than find a new place to live.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest danger was inside the house. The only time I listen to traditional broadcast radio is during violent weather, when one of the local country stations intensively covers the meteorological events. They occasionally interrupt the descriptions of hail and flooding for commercials and public service announcements, the latter of which are mostly courtesy of the &#8220;Ad Council.&#8221; The mean sanctimony of these PSAs is sufficient to choke 2.65 SJWs and incalculably many people of normal sensibilities. They create a powerful temptation to punch the stereo speakers, which would hurt my hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like tomorrow will be a good day for catching tigers. Update: Spring has sprung. We should hear the sirens any time now. Update II: The tornadic storm fizzled out by the time it reached my neighborhood, and all we got was an hour or so of hail, none of it larger than half-dollar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/coming-attraction-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coming attraction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life-adventures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-4YJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19211,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141\/revisions\/19211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}