{"id":1816,"date":"2011-06-01T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T04:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2011-06-01T00:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T04:10:06","slug":"summers-snow-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/01\/summers-snow-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"summer&#8217;s snow storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got home from work at 11pm to find the power out. Adrienne had called (from the cell) and after I walked her through how to shut down UPS-protected computers, she said she was going to bed in the darkness; not much else to do. Coming home to a completely dark house on a completely dark dead-end street reminded me what I like so much about snow storms: the time right after when everything is so peacefully quiet. Sure, we&#8217;re in the &#8216;burbs but hearing that silence brought out how noisy our surroundings and lives really are. From the cat&#8217;s water dish to the washing machine to the neighbor&#8217;s loud tv (yes, we can still hear it at times), life still is quite loud. I only got about 5 minutes of quiet beauty until everything sprang to life. And while it&#8217;s nice to know the refrigerator is again making sure my milk won&#8217;t spoil and the bedroom AC is making sure my wife won&#8217;t spoil, the easy silence was really nice too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got home from work at 11pm to find the power out. Adrienne had called (from the cell) and after I walked her through how to shut down UPS-protected computers, she said she was going to bed in the darkness; not much else to do. Coming home to a completely dark house on a completely dark [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQPn-ti","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidtallacksen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}