{"id":2109,"date":"2010-11-10T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2010-11-10T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:31:14","slug":"so-frustrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/so-frustrating\/","title":{"rendered":"So frustrating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I biked to work without even needing gloves. Today is like the third day in a row with highs close to 70 degrees, in November, in Wisconsin. I think maybe this is the year when it&#8217;s just not going to get cold at all. What does that do the Wisconsin psyche? We live here because we <em>like<\/em> cold &amp; snow &#8211; we like to ski and make snowballs, and feel hearty. And, if it never gets cold, how will I store the cookies between Thanksgiving &amp; Christmas, if it never gets cold enough to keep the vestibule of my house in the 40s?<\/p>\n<p>And the Republicans want to give back the<a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/article_c5b19d5c-eb76-11df-9da3-001cc4c03286.html\"> high speed rail money<\/a>, and build more roads. Gov-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/article_edbd04a2-ec44-11df-934d-001cc4c002e0.html\">Walker&#8217;s even talking to US Dept. of Transportation<\/a> to try to re-purpose the $$ earmarked for rail &#8211; personally I think he&#8217;s an idiot &#8211; but it&#8217;s starting to seem like he&#8217;s going to get his way. I feel like they&#8217;re a bunch of spoiled brats, and us liberals\/Dems are like parents &#8211; we&#8217;ve been trying to say there will be consequences, but they&#8217;re getting away with it for now. 60-degrees in November may be lovely, but New York &amp; San Francisco are going to be underwater any minute now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2110\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Picture-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2110\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2110 \" title=\"Forecast for WI\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Picture-5-300x234.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Picture-5-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Picture-5.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forecast for WI<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I biked to work without even needing gloves. Today is like the third day in a row with highs close to 70 degrees, in November, in Wisconsin. I think maybe this is the year when it&#8217;s just not going to get cold at all. What does that do the Wisconsin psyche? We live here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,163,98],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-red-state-blue-state","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}