{"id":3256,"date":"2011-11-08T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T23:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2011-11-08T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T23:02:31","slug":"given-whats-barreling-down-on-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/given-whats-barreling-down-on-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Given what&#8217;s barreling down on Alaska&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;we just pulled the pond pump (thanks to Jane!), coiled the hose, pulled the UV sterilizers, and fastened the heaters. Now we&#8217;re filling the pond back up to level before totally shutting down exterior water. That storm is looking extraordinarily nasty&#8212;polar low pressure with the force of a hurricane bearing down on Alaskan coast: heads up for Canada and the northern tier of US, clear across. BC and Alberta could catch it. WA is looking to be a lot chillier than the forecast, and the likelihood of getting over to see Jane&#8217;s brother next weekend does not look good.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s election day today: we got together our ballots, which has a batch of annoyingly complicated issues, which, imho, is why we&#8217;re a republic that is s&#8217;posed to have legislators capable of studying these things, adding the numbers, and reaching a sane conclusion. I fear for the outcome when voters have to parse 8 pages of explanation of toll roads and bridges and whether a bicycle is a transportation system, or a pedestrian counts, or whether you can use gas tax to fund a city bus&#8230; and which, what, and where would be affected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;we just pulled the pond pump (thanks to Jane!), coiled the hose, pulled the UV sterilizers, and fastened the heaters. Now we&#8217;re filling the pond back up to level before totally shutting down exterior water. That storm is looking extraordinarily nasty&#8212;polar low pressure with the force of a hurricane bearing down on Alaskan coast: heads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}