{"id":692,"date":"2006-02-17T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2006-02-17T10:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T15:05:00","slug":"big-sky-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Big Sky Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, we don&#8217;t live in Wyoming, but there are times when Midwestern sky feels just as expansive and infinite. I think what we have going on here in the Midwest that makes life a little different is an ever-changing weather situation.  My husband is the ultimate weather forecaster &#8211; long ago, when we were in Orlando on a vacation together, he was watching the Weather Channel, and excitedly chimed in that a large front was coming off the coast of Africa. (Yes, &#8220;off the coast of Africa&#8221; gets said a LOT around our house now&#8230;.. I couldn&#8217;t stop laughing at the time.) Of course, later, the weatherperson talked about it coming in off the coast of Africa, and James whipped around with righteous indignation and affirmation. &#8220;See!? See?!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I went to Lawrence last weekend to visit one of my very good friends, and the drive was nothing short of a mini-slide show in Midwestern Winter. The skies were overcast &#038; gray, and for a chunk of time, everything was clear. Then, for three minutes? Blinding snow. Then? Poof! Gone! Ha ha! Did you dream that? I drove through maybe ten segments of blinding snow, and by the fourth one, it was becoming familiar, so I started taking pictures.  You can&#8217;t really see the snow, but I think it captures Kansas pretty well&#8230;.. and yeah, I&#8217;m jacking up my layout to use the bigger photos!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/100275368\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/34\/100275368_f4e844f96e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"100_0892\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/100275505\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/19\/100275505_26cc169abd.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"100_0906\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/plazajen\/100275391\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/42\/100275391_ea93479d0b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"100_0899\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, we don&#8217;t live in Wyoming, but there are times when Midwestern sky feels just as expansive and infinite. I think what we have going on here in the Midwest that makes life a little different is an ever-changing weather situation. My husband is the ultimate weather forecaster &#8211; long ago, when we were in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}