{"id":4006,"date":"2014-02-08T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2014-02-08T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:00:54","slug":"newark-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=4006","title":{"rendered":"Newark In Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been having one of those winters here in New Jersey.  Lots of cold, snow, wind and ice, much more than we usually get.  (With all due sympathy for those of you up north and in the mid-west, who are getting it worse; and also to those in the south who had just a brief taste, but weren&#8217;t ready at all for it).  Last week we had 8 inches of snow, then three days later another 4 inches with a freezing rainstorm on top of it, followed by a 15 degree cold wave.  So here are 9 pics taken on my way to work this past Thursday, the day after the freezing rain.  This is truly Newark in winter time.<\/p>\n<p>First, a half-hearted, uninspired dawn at the train station.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/Newarkwinter1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Next, some razor barb wire, a cheery way to greet the new day.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/Newarkwinter2.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>And after that, long stretches of slippery, icy sidewalk<!--more--> to contend with on my hike to the office. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/Newarkwinter3.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Someone is getting ready to start shoveling the cars out from the frozen snow.  Or should they just wait  until April?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/Newarkwinter4.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Some impromptu snow-sculptures to enhance the Newark street-scape.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/Newarkwinter5.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>The eternal grease trucks arrive extra-early to stake out their spots.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/Newarkwinter6.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>A hardy breed of people get off the bus and brave the cold on the way to their jobs or appointments (or court appearances) in the government square.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/Newarkwinter7.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Ah yes, residential parking on the side streets.  You know it&#8217;s winter when you see those little walls of lovely gray snow-ice that surround the parking space in front of everyone&#8217;s house. (Actually these final shots were taken on my way home).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/Newarkwinter10.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>And when you get in your car and leave for work or for the store, don&#8217;t forget to put a garbage can or road cone or plastic chair out to make sure that no one else comes and grabs your spot while you&#8217;re gone.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/Newarkwinter11.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>Hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed this little taste of urban winter splendor.  Hard to believe that in another 6 weeks it will be spring, and this will all be just a bad dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been having one of those winters here in New Jersey. Lots of cold, snow, wind and ice, much more than we usually get. (With all due sympathy for those of you up north and in the mid-west, who are getting it worse; and also to those in the south who had just a brief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}