{"id":1378,"date":"2008-01-28T19:33:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2008-01-28T19:33:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:33:27","slug":"warming-up-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"Warming up Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Minnesota blog<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomdogs.com\/\">Freedom Dogs<\/a> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM&#038;eurl=http:\/\/www.freedomdogs.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2585&#038;Itemid=1\">this YouTube video<\/a> yesterday, and I forwarded the URL to several people, because I thought it was hilarious. Maybe you\u2019ve got to live up here to appreciate it, but this is gritty, slice-of-life filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m4gw.com:2005\/m4gw\/home.html\">Minnesotans for Global Warming<\/a> is a real group. They\u2019re planning a rally at the state capitol this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d be tempted to go, except it\u2019s so cold this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>Today was quite nice, actually. The mercury rocketed up to about 40\u00b0 F. (that\u2019s about 5\u00b0 Euro). Driving home, I saw people sitting at outside tables at a coffee shop (they were wearing parkas, but they were nevertheless drinking their coffee outside).<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s all a cheat. All tease. Tomorrow the high temperature will be 25 or 30 degrees lower than today. And the high Wednesday will be about zero. Then it&#8217;ll ease up a little, but there\u2019s plenty of freeze left in the freezer.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I think nature worship will never catch on in Minnesota. If you live in California, you might be able to join some animist cult and delude yourself into thinking Mother Nature is a soft and indulgent sort, a nurturer. Up here we know her better. We figured out long ago that if she doesn\u2019t take her medication regularly she\u2019s likely to wander out of the house in her nightgown, and sometimes at night you hear her playing with the cutlery in the kitchen, and you wonder\u2026<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota blog Freedom Dogs posted this YouTube video yesterday, and I forwarded the URL to several people, because I thought it was hilarious. Maybe you\u2019ve got to live up here to appreciate it, but this is gritty, slice-of-life filmmaking. By the way, Minnesotans for Global Warming is a real group. They\u2019re planning a rally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warming up Mom<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goofing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}