{"id":999,"date":"2006-02-01T22:28:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T03:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=999"},"modified":"2006-02-02T08:52:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T13:52:50","slug":"which-way-the-wind-blows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/which-way-the-wind-blows\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Way the Wind Blows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on WCOM, I was not only the brief poet guest, but I was also the weatherman or at least the weather reader. I can&#8217;t remember all about the four days or so of weather prediction that I read. It was handed to me quickly. But I do know that the current weather (for last night) included a bit about the wind speed. None of the later reportlets did. But as a reader, I kept looking for some symmetry in the writing. There were highs and lows. Sunny or cloudy. Not the word breeze or windy after the first time mentioned. At the end, I said something like <em>&#8220;no word on wind.&#8221;<\/em> I can&#8217;t quite recall exactly. Others who heard did recall, but no one quite had the same story. I&#8217;m less interested in that it was me doing the talking and more interested in what different people heard. My son thought I was too emotional about the weather. Another friend was kinder, she said I was dry &#8212; seems right for weather this week. Perhaps I was breezy as well.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, Phil Meyer points us to <a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/pubzone\/weblogs\/pressthink\/2006\/01\/30\/ams_intro.html\">Andrew Postman&#8217;s tribute\/essay to his father on the 20th anniversary<\/a> of the publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death\">&#8220;Amusing Ourselves to Death.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on WCOM, I was not only the brief poet guest, but I was also the weatherman or at least the weather reader. I can&#8217;t remember all about the four days or so of weather prediction that I read. It was handed to me quickly. But I do know that the current weather (for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}