{"id":10046,"date":"2004-01-15T05:58:23","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T05:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10046"},"modified":"2004-01-15T05:58:23","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T05:58:23","slug":"for-those-about-to-shovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/15\/for-those-about-to-shovel\/","title":{"rendered":"For those about to shovel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s way too much snow outside for my liking.  I can remember when this kind of weather was exciting; each new layer of fresh powder goodness was a blessed event.  Then I lived in upstate New York for a few years and learned what real snow was.  My love affair with winter began to fade.<\/p>\n<p>The older I get, the less appeal winter holds for me, the more I think I want to pack up and live like Hemingway down in Key West, Florida.  Under my sweater, I&#8217;m wearing my favorite T-shirt. It&#8217;s white with a black sketch drawing of a cat with six toes and the title, Hemingway House.  As I write this, I&#8217;m sneaking glances at a panoramic picture of a tropical paradise that sits on top of my monitor, wishing I was in the photo.<\/p>\n<p>But at the same time, I wouldn&#8217;t want to be anywhere else.  Living here was a choice, not a prison sentence.  And that&#8217;s what I try and remember every day, that living here is a choice I&#8217;ve made.  Even when it&#8217;s 0 degrees outside and there&#8217;s a half foot of snow on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s way too much snow outside for my liking. I can remember when this kind of weather was exciting; each new layer of fresh powder goodness was a blessed event. Then I lived in upstate New York for a few years and learned what real snow was. My love affair with winter began to fade. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}