{"id":82,"date":"2007-01-01T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T23:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/01\/01\/welcome-to-the-mill\/"},"modified":"2007-01-02T05:48:54","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T13:48:54","slug":"welcome-to-the-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/01\/welcome-to-the-mill\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you just joining us, welcome to The Mill. Please feel free to have a look around.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s talk about the weather. Bolin Creek was running full tilt earlier today thanks to about about a half-inch of rain since midnight. And get ready to usher back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erh.noaa.gov\/forecast\/MapClick.php?site=phi&#038;FcstType=text&#038;MapType=3&#038;site=rah&#038;CiTemplate=1&#038;map.x=153&#038;map.y=93\">another cold front<\/a>. This week, it&#8217;s headed for lows in the mid-30s (a low of 29 is predicted for Tuesday night) and highs clear down to the mid-50s. Still pretty warm for this time of year. A lot of people coming back from visiting up north are talking about how strange it is to have seen no snow. If this has your global-warming alarm bells ringing then jump over to Steve Gregory&#8217;s weather blog and check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/comment.html?entrynum=604&#038;tstamp=200612\">Dreaming of a brown Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had my collards\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcooked for a solid three hours by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/1132\/story\/403235.html\">Acme<\/a>&#8216;s Kevin Callaghan\u00e2\u20ac\u201dat a get-together on the northwest side of town. Hoppin&#8217; John and country ham and all that, too. A bit about New Year food lore of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2006612300304\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-record.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051231\/NEWSREC0104\/51231001\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocala.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061230\/FEATURES02\/212300321\/1027\/YOURLIFE\">here<\/a>. Always reminds me of the differing takes on the meaning of eating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black-eyed_peas\">black-eyes peas<\/a>. Coins or luck?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"peas.jpeg\" id=\"image81\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/peas.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you just joining us, welcome to The Mill. Please feel free to have a look around. Now let&#8217;s talk about the weather. Bolin Creek was running full tilt earlier today thanks to about about a half-inch of rain since midnight. And get ready to usher back in another cold front. This week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}