{"id":162,"date":"2008-07-25T07:54:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T12:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=162"},"modified":"2018-10-31T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:34:32","slug":"storms-comin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Storm&#8217;s Comin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another blog I subscribe to is the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/capitalweathergang\/\" target=\"_blank\">Capital Weather Gang<\/a>, the Washington Post&#8217;s weather blog.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t bother getting my weather from them, I just think it&#8217;s a fun blog because they always seem to be bored.\u00a0 Every once in a while, they kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/capitalweathergang\/2008\/07\/can_you_take_the_heat.html\" target=\"_blank\">lose their minds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I can imagine how weather is boring.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t used to be.\u00a0 All through my youth and into the 90&#8217;s, it was loads of fun&#8230;mainly because you didn&#8217;t get the weather every 15 goddamned minutes.\u00a0 These frequent weather reports we get on the 24 hour channels, and on the radio, seem to be directed by my grandfather.\u00a0 Storm&#8217;s comin&#8217;!\u00a0 Still comin&#8217;!\u00a0 Gonna be a big one!\u00a0 Still comin&#8217;!\u00a0 We&#8217;re gonna flooooood!\u00a0 Power&#8217;s gonna go off!\u00a0 That&#8217;s a big one brewin&#8217;!\u00a0 That&#8217;s gonna be a real buster!\u00a0 Oh, it must have passed to the north of us.<\/p>\n<p>My uncle and I have a fairly complicated &#8220;Storm&#8217;s Comin&#8217;!&#8221; drinking game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another blog I subscribe to is the Capital Weather Gang, the Washington Post&#8217;s weather blog.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t bother getting my weather from them, I just think it&#8217;s a fun blog because they always seem to be bored.\u00a0 Every once in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=162\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Storm&#8217;s Comin&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[192,217],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-dc","tag-grandfather","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}