{"id":5803,"date":"2014-03-22T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T13:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2014-03-22T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T13:17:25","slug":"so-this-is-what-spring-looks-like-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5803","title":{"rendered":"So this is what spring looks like in 2014?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I looked out my window this morning, and this is what I saw:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/spring-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5804\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/spring-2014.jpg\" width=\"653\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/spring-2014.jpg 653w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/spring-2014-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking that this is how Ice Ages start: spring arrives later and later, winter arrives sooner and sooner, until one year, there is no summer&#8230; the snow never completely melts. The next year, more snow arrives and soon (in a few decades) there is a glacial layer of compacted ice that will eventually thicken to a depth of a kilometer or more. And then, it&#8217;s here to stay for the next hundred thousand years or so.<\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t expect an Ice Age to arrive on our doorstep just yet, but maybe this view explains why Canadians appear less concerned than they should be about global warming.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5803' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I looked out my window this morning, and this is what I saw: I keep thinking that this is how Ice Ages start: spring arrives later and later, winter arrives sooner and sooner, until one year, there is no summer&#8230; the snow never completely melts. The next year, more snow arrives and soon (in a <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5803' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,44,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-local-ottawa","category-weather","category-22-id","category-44-id","category-34-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}