{"id":5140,"date":"2015-01-26T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2015-01-27T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T20:35:10","slug":"pleading-with-the-snow-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=5140","title":{"rendered":"Pleading With The Snow Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/carspleading.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>We are now getting a big, nasty snowstorm here in northern NJ.  On the eve of the storm, some of my neighbors lifted up there windshield wipers in preparation.  I never could figure out why people do this.  Up or down, you&#8217;re still going to get a lot of snow on your car and will need to clear it off and clean the ice from your windshield.  Today I noticed that these wipers look something like arms lifted up to the heavens, petitioning for mercy.  Perhaps this is something of a modern talisman, pleading with the snow gods for clemency.  I guess that putting your wipers up before a storm satisfies the urge to do SOMETHING, despite the fact that you can&#8217;t do a darn thing to stop or alter a snowstorm.  I suppose it makes people feel better while waiting for the flakes to fall.  As the Tom Petty song goes, the waiting is the hardest part . . . <\/p>\n<p>(Or is it the actual shoveling and then putting up with all the ugly aftermath of a snowstorm in over-crowded suburban NJ?)  <\/p>\n<p>P.S. &#8212; AFTERMATH: The forecast when I took this shot was for 20 to 24 inches of snow.  The final total here was about 4 to 5 inches.  As said on the beer commercial: IT&#8217;S ONLY WEIRD IF IT DOESN&#8217;T WORK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now getting a big, nasty snowstorm here in northern NJ. On the eve of the storm, some of my neighbors lifted up there windshield wipers in preparation. I never could figure out why people do this. Up or down, you&#8217;re still going to get a lot of snow on your car and will [&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\/5140"}],"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=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5144,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}