{"id":3814,"date":"2014-01-09T07:32:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2014-01-09T07:32:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T12:32:14","slug":"polar-vortex-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/01\/09\/polar-vortex-eh\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Vortex, eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big red cap on the weather map<br \/>\nhas only recently been there<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re looking for the app might as well take a nap<br \/>\n\u2018cause it\u2019s the latest in the weather scene there<\/p>\n<p>The weather guys never seem surprised<br \/>\nby disparities found between where<br \/>\nthey say warm\u2019s been when they really mean<br \/>\nthey don\u2019t have a clue if it\u2019s seen there<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re displeased when you hear \u201cflash freeze\u201d<br \/>\nis heading your way in the morning<br \/>\ndon\u2019t be surprised that it\u2019s not french fries<br \/>\nnor peas but the roads in the warning<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not for sex that the polar vortex<br \/>\nand the term \u201cflash freeze\u201d have happened<br \/>\nIt\u2019s sound FX for the people who text<br \/>\non the subject of ground that is snapping<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t got the hang of a frigid bang<br \/>\nDon\u2019t fret that you\u2019re out of the loop, eh?<br \/>\nThey\u2019re really just the gang that invents the language<br \/>\nof weather forecasting for the stupid.<\/p>\n<p>So put on your hat and a coat that makes you fat<br \/>\nand hope you can warm up your tootsies<br \/>\nHypothermia is bad, so energize stat<br \/>\nand warm yourself by tapping your foot, see?<\/p>\n<p>Your foot, see?<br \/>\nYour footsie, your footsies, your tootsies,<br \/>\nyour tootsies.<br \/>\nWarm it up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egads, my first rap-id verse here. Ya gotta tap them feets to get warm, peeps! <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/01\/09\/polar-vortex-eh\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54,338,3,955,28],"tags":[145,77,163],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boppin","category-experiment","category-fun","category-poetry","category-rap","category-snow","tag-social-commentary","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}