{"id":877,"date":"2013-01-04T17:16:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T23:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/01\/04\/130104-newyearsnow\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T21:07:42","slug":"130104-newyearsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/01\/04\/130104-newyearsnow\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t exactly get a blizzard in Midland (although parts of West Texas did get just that), but it was nice to wake up to a snow-covered view on our day off. I suspect that the back yard horny toad &#8211; who, by the way, is attracting way more coverage lately than he merits &#8211; probably would disagree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/backyardsnow.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of snow-covered yard art\"><\/p>\n<p>Since we don&#8217;t get much snow in these parts, I like to try to get a few photos to illustrate how the phenomenon transforms our usual surroundings. Like, for instance, these pansies:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/snowpansies.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of snow-covered pansies\"><\/p>\n<p>You <i>did<\/i> recognize the pansies, right?<\/p>\n<p>The snow on the roof had begun to melt, and the water dripping onto the back porch persuaded me to grab <a href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/12\/28\/121228-christmasgifts\/\">my new macro lens<\/a>, with the following result:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/bubble.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of bubble\"><\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that the new lens and I are going to have some fun in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t exactly get a blizzard in Midland (although parts of West Texas did get just that), but it was nice to wake up to a snow-covered view on our day off. I suspect that the back yard horny toad &#8211; who, by the way, is attracting way more coverage lately than he merits &#8211;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/01\/04\/130104-newyearsnow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Year Snow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-nature","category-photography","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9732,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}