{"id":150,"date":"2004-12-09T08:06:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T12:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2006-08-13T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T14:30:20","slug":"concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, no more wanking about Auburn football, I promise; I just get so MAD thinking about it! . . . Sorry.  I shall try to move on.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________<\/p>\n<p>Alabama weather:  it makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it gets your hopes up only to have them dashed across the snow-free pavement.  And still I come back for more, mainly because I live here and have gullible hopes.<\/p>\n<p>It is now December, but that means nothing here in terms of &#8216;cold.&#8217;  We have had our air conditioner on all week.  It will be in the 70s again today with a deluge of rain and a few sprinkles of tornadoes coming this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>And yet . . .<\/p>\n<p>There is a buzzing murmur coming from the weather world.  It isn&#8217;t a forecast yet, just &#8216;concepts,&#8217; as James Spann likes to say.  There are concepts of much colder weather settling in by mid-next week and some moisture coming in right after that.  Cold air and moisture that might equate to a winter weather event around the 17th through the 20th for Alabama.  I&#8217;m trying not to get excited, but it&#8217;s SNOW!  On our anniversary, even!  But I must not freak out.  &#8216;Tis but a concept.<\/p>\n<p>The same concept comes up again for Christmas Eve.  I drool icicles at the thought.<\/p>\n<p>I must go and shower myself before the tornadoes come.  I don&#8217;t want to be blown away with the debris of my apartment building and have some rescue worker find me without any skivvies and nasty hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, no more wanking about Auburn football, I promise; I just get so MAD thinking about it! . . . Sorry. I shall try to move on. _________________________ Alabama weather: it makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it gets your hopes up only to have them dashed across the snow-free pavement. And still I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}