{"id":75,"date":"2011-01-20T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2011-01-20T05:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T05:34:00","slug":"when-last-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"When Last We &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When last we spoke, I was preparing to be a pallbearer in the cold. It was indeed cold and the wind was whistling. You could tell the\u00c2\u00a0foreigners\u00c2\u00a0because\u00c2\u00a0they tried withstanding the grave side service in nothing heavier than a suit coat. They were shaking pretty hard by the end since the wind chill was -25 degrees or lower.<\/p>\n<p>Of course then started a warming trend that saw temperatures reaching the upper 50s Sunday and Monday. A lot of the snow melted and the ice could be chipped off. Today started nice but then the temperature dropped 30 degrees and it\u00c2\u00a0started\u00c2\u00a0snowing. So it is once more snow covered and the temperatures are headed into single digits again. Nothing like the variability of the weather out here on the high plains of Colorado.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/TTfF-SK9VhI\/AAAAAAAAAy0\/YB-bzSe8TFw\/s1600\/snow_wind.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/TTfF-SK9VhI\/AAAAAAAAAy0\/YB-bzSe8TFw\/s320\/snow_wind.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Leaving the weather aside, I have been enjoying the outdoors while the weather was nice rather than writing here. (Sounds like a good excuse doesn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n<p>The other day I was reflecting on how varied my musical tastes are. Everything from Katy Perry to Iron Butterfly to&#8230; In fact the only music I really can&#8217;t stand is some Rap music and a lot of the old cater-wauling country and western. So what forms of music can you not tolerate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When last we spoke, I was preparing to be a pallbearer in the cold. It was indeed cold and the wind was whistling. You could tell the\u00c2\u00a0foreigners\u00c2\u00a0because\u00c2\u00a0they tried withstanding the grave side service in nothing heavier than a suit coat. They were shaking pretty hard by the end since the wind chill was -25 degrees &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=75\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Last We &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}