{"id":39911,"date":"2012-02-14T05:12:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T12:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=39911"},"modified":"2015-09-11T13:53:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:53:31","slug":"once-again-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=39911","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I&#8217;m driving through Seattle after the snow\/ice storm that hit mid-January. The light is odd&#8230; like someone took a gigantic wet cloth and threw it over the sun. It&#8217;s not quite dark or light. David Bowie&#8217;s <em>Space Oddity<\/em> (http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY) is playing on the radio and it adds to the eerie quality of the drive.<\/p>\n<p>People are still fragile from the snow that shut down the city. They&#8217;re driving like skittish animals and break at every little dip and turn; it makes the drive unpredictable. There&#8217;s bits of trees and debris everywhere. I keep driving over something that looks a heck of a lot like seaweed. How did that get into the middle of the road?<\/p>\n<p>Getting here was an adventure. While still on the tarmac in Calgary, I&#8217;m sitting in first class with a crew of pilots when the steward comes over and breathlessly says, <em>I&#8217;m truly truly sorry but the carbon monoxide alarm has gone off and we have to evacuate the plane immediately.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>By the time the announcement is made to the rest of the plane, I&#8217;ve been shepherded off the plane rather unceremoniously&#8230; to a waiting area where we all wait and wait and wait. When the waiting is done there&#8217;s a short flight followed by more waiting. <\/p>\n<p>By the time I get to Seattle I&#8217;m exhausted from all the waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nOnce again I&#8217;m driving through Seattle after the snow\/ice storm that hit&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=39911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Once Again, Seattle&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590,34,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seattle","category-us","category-washington","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39911"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66799,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39911\/revisions\/66799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}