{"id":3374,"date":"2014-01-27T09:38:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2014-01-27T09:38:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T14:38:59","slug":"freak-weather-and-the-upper-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/freak-weather-and-the-upper-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Freak Weather and The Upper Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought some of you might be interested in this book.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;IS2=1&amp;npa=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=crapofocrwhlo-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=0060520760\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you, like me, ate Laura Ingalls Wilder books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner as a kid, then this book might be&#8230; interesting&#8230; sobering&#8230; sad&#8230; and informative.<\/p>\n<p>I could only read it in small bursts (it&#8217;s quite sad in places) but very, very interesting. Particluarly Laskin&#8217;s description of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatherwise.org\/Archives\/Back%20Issues\/2012\/January-February%202012\/retrospect-full.html\"><em>how<\/em> this 1888 freak storm<\/a> happened. If you watch the Weather Channel (or any good weather-caster) you&#8217;ll recognize some current news.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatherwise.org\/Archives\/Back%20Issues\/2012\/January-February%202012\/retrospect-full.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Children's Blizzard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weatherwise.org\/sebin\/r\/t\/retrospect_photo1.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">the morning of January 12, 1888&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought some of you might be interested in this book. If you, like me, ate Laura Ingalls Wilder books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner as a kid, then this book might be&#8230; interesting&#8230; sobering&#8230; sad&#8230; and informative. I could only read it in small bursts (it&#8217;s quite sad in places) but very, very interesting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,23],"tags":[460,461,459,52],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-general-ranting","category-travel","tag-460","tag-cold","tag-laura","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}