{"id":388,"date":"2006-11-28T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/28\/qimaugruk\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T11:17:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T16:17:31","slug":"qimaugruk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/28\/qimaugruk\/","title":{"rendered":"qimaugruk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>[qimaugruk: Inuit for snowdrift blocking trail or a building]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Soon after daybreak<br \/>\nwe heard the good news<br \/>\non the radio:<br \/>\nall the roads were blocked;<br \/>\nschool was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>One glance out the window<br \/>\nconfirmed the situation:<br \/>\nsnow was blowing<br \/>\nripping the surface of roofs,<br \/>\nbuildings, yards, the very street itself<br \/>\ninto vague white smears<br \/>\neventually sculpting driven snow<br \/>\ninto massive sleek curving<br \/>\nabstracts of the land beneath.<\/p>\n<p>Next door, snow topped<br \/>\nthe roof of the house<br \/>\nin a giant vertical wave<br \/>\nworthy of the surf at Oahu.<\/p>\n<p>When we finally tried to<br \/>\nget out for some groceries<br \/>\nour door was blocked by<br \/>\nqimaugruk over the top;<br \/>\nwe had to climb out<br \/>\na window on the far side<br \/>\nand ski to the store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[qimaugruk: Inuit for snowdrift blocking trail or a building] Soon after daybreak we heard the good news on the radio: all the roads were blocked; school was cancelled. One glance out the window confirmed the situation: snow was blowing ripping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/28\/qimaugruk\/\">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":[3,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-serial","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}