{"id":970,"date":"2011-02-17T00:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2011-02-17T00:39:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T08:39:12","slug":"oh-hail-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/02\/oh-hail-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh HAIL Yeah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, just a quick post before I go to bed tonight; something interesting enough I thought would be worth sharing. We just had a heavy hail storm here, at least, by our standards (after all, it&#8217;s the Bay Area, Cali &#8230; even frost for me is rare&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had some rain lately, but I knew this was something else when the whole house was literally vibrating due to the impact of the hail.\u00a0 I looked out and saw my deck covered in white. So what did I do? I threw on my ski pants and jacket,\u00a0 ran outside, and frolicked in the streets a bit. I even did my own HAIL ANGEL. Yeah, the neighbors thought I was nuts, but how many of them can actually say they did a hail angel in front of their house?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5257\/5453144334_4e79712afd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>[My Hail Angel. Hail-a cool, hu?]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And of course, after playing in the ice a bit, I had to check on the plants&#8230;. and here they are, a bit icy looking.<\/p>\n<p>Eh, they&#8217;ll be fine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5059\/5453138112_92f21b13ae.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>[Sarracenia snow cones!]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, just a quick post before I go to bed tonight; something interesting enough I thought would be worth sharing. We just had a heavy hail storm here, at least, by our standards (after all, it&#8217;s the Bay Area, Cali &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2011\/02\/oh-hail-yeah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[214,242,244,76,243],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-fun","tag-hail","tag-hail-angel","tag-ice","tag-weird-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}