{"id":6542,"date":"2010-11-28T17:32:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T22:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2017-12-02T03:18:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T22:18:52","slug":"you-know-its-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/you-know-its-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"You know it&#8217;s winter&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6543\" title=\"winter_Westies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/winter_Westies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"255\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6544\" title=\"Interlake_Gothic_winter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Interlake_Gothic_winter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"378\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg Beach, Man<\/em><em>itoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You know it\u2019s winter when, quite suddenly, the tens of thousands of geese that have filled the skies for the past two months are gone\u2026 when the cats\u2019 enthusiasm for the outdoors dies within a second of opening the door to their eager <em>meows<\/em>, and when the morning ritual includes an extra five minutes of sweeping snow off the car and scraping the windshield. Oh, there\u2019s also the freezing temperatures of course, the monochrome palette that suddenly sets in\u2026 and other telltale signs such as overshoes by the door, snow-covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?s=westfalia&amp;x=26&amp;y=7\" target=\"_blank\">Westies<\/a> parked all in a hibernating row, and <em>\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatclayart.com\/?p=600\" target=\"_blank\">the greeters<\/a>\u2019<\/em> outside Ev\u2019s studio sporting white toques and scarves.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>I returned from a quick trip to Taiwan four days ago to find a complete change of season\u2014not unexpected of course, but still a surprise\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba You know it\u2019s winter when, quite suddenly, the tens of thousands of geese that have filled the skies for the past two months are gone\u2026 when the cats\u2019 enthusiasm for the outdoors dies within a second of opening the door to their eager meows, and when the morning ritual includes an extra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,11,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15712,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions\/15712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}