{"id":2260,"date":"2014-01-24T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2014-03-23T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T22:34:32","slug":"looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"Looking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first winter in Minnesota, I spent a lot of time looking up. I wasn&#8217;t being spiritual. It was because I had not developed my ice walking skills.\u00a0\u00a0 When snow falls on top of ice, it is the worse kind of trap for the inexperienced\u00a0 Texan.\u00a0 You are having a good day and suddenly winter springs its diabolic trap and you are down. Snow is not soft and fluffy to fall on. That is a deceptive lie from the pit of hell. The ice is dangerous and it hurts. I know.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was solved with ski poles. When I need to go out to the barn, I use a ski pole on each side for balance and traction. The poles keep me steady and confident that the ice isn&#8217;t going to kill me. This is a great survival tip if you are foolish enough to consider visiting Minnesota in winter.<\/p>\n<p>Winter, I win again. Ha!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first winter in Minnesota, I spent a lot of time looking up. I wasn&#8217;t being spiritual. It was because I had not developed my ice walking skills.\u00a0\u00a0 When snow falls on top of ice, it is the worse kind of trap for the inexperienced\u00a0 Texan.\u00a0 You are having a good day and suddenly winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}