{"id":4607,"date":"2011-01-10T07:54:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T12:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2011-01-10T08:07:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T13:07:26","slug":"the-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/10\/the-slot\/","title":{"rendered":"the &#8220;slot&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"281\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/monday.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Well, sometimes things work out oddly. The snow began to fall up here around midnight and we have a couple of inches. It&#8217;s on the ground, but the trees aren&#8217;t covered which bodes well for our electricity. We&#8217;re in a &quot;slot&quot; in the storm which roughly follows the lower Appalachians and were spared from the big hit. We&#8217;re at the white dot and the storm is moving in the direction of the arrow. <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">As a kid, I would&#8217;ve felt short-changed. As an old man, it&#8217;s fine with me. This is our third storm this winter and I&#8217;m kind&nbsp; of over it. If the &quot;slot&quot; persists, we might miss the brunt of the predicted freezing rain. This is the &quot;up-down&quot; part of the world and you can&#8217;t go anywhere without being on some part of a hill\/mountain, so an ice storm is a disaster &#8211; too much for our County&#8217;s sole snow plow to handle [an ttachment bolted onto the front of a truck]. This is, after all, the South&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, sometimes things work out oddly. The snow began to fall up here around midnight and we have a couple of inches. It&#8217;s on the ground, but the trees aren&#8217;t covered which bodes well for our electricity. We&#8217;re in a &quot;slot&quot; in the storm which roughly follows the lower Appalachians and were spared from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}