{"id":3945,"date":"2014-02-09T06:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2014-02-08T21:44:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T05:44:40","slug":"snow-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=3945","title":{"rendered":"Snow bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I drove down to Springfield to pay a quick visit to my folks. It was supposed to start snowing on Thursday night, so I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d have any trouble. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still in Springfield. We got a coffee delivery from our favorite Rock Star, and I had dinner and too many drinks with friends. It&#8217;s been a great visit in spite of the weather. Or maybe<br \/>\n because of it. I wouldn&#8217;t have seen any of my friends if the weather had been better and I&#8217;d gone home on time. So, silver linings. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s expected to warm up on Sunday, so maybe I&#8217;ll make it home in time to go back to work on schedule. Maybe we should have stayed in Cabo. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115357.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115357.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20140208-115357.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115404.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115404.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20140208-115404.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115411.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115411.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20140208-115411.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115421.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115421.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20140208-115421.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115434.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115434.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20140208-115434.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115440.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115440.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20140208-115440.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115449.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115449.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20140208-115449.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I drove down to Springfield to pay a quick visit to my folks. It was supposed to start snowing on Thursday night, so I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d have any trouble. I&#8217;m still in Springfield. We got a coffee delivery from our favorite Rock Star, and I had dinner and too many drinks with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=3945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snow bound<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michellejolin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/20140208-115449.jpg?fit=300%2C224&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-11D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6381,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=6381","url_meta":{"origin":3945,"position":0},"title":"Home for a minute","author":"Michelle","date":"June 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight I am writing from lovely Springfield, Oregon. 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