{"id":146,"date":"2008-12-15T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegobutton.net\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2011-06-28T22:19:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T02:19:17","slug":"this-should-not-happen-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/this-should-not-happen-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"This Should Not Happen. Ever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/weather.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/weather.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"weather\" width=\"290\" height=\"344\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/weather.jpg 290w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/weather-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPart of my interest in touring is to spend more time outside Manhattan and see regions and climates I&#8217;ve never been to.  One of the things I have learned so far is that this planet of ours is <i>crazy<\/i>.  In the grand scheme of things, New York and Minneapolis aren&#8217;t that far apart, and yet at the same moment in time there is a difference in temperature of <i>70 degrees!!!<\/i>  Another thing someone pointed out is that the position of the sun in the sky here makes it always look like it&#8217;s about to be sunset.  I noticed it especially today as I was walking to the train around 2PM, and was blinded by the sun low in the sky over the street ahead.  I don&#8217;t really understand why that happens, as it&#8217;s only 4 degrees more north in latitude than New York, you wouldn&#8217;t think it would be a noticeable difference.<\/p>\n<p>Well today was our first day off here, and of course the temperature dropped about 40 degrees overnight.  It was our first real sub-zero day.  A few of us went on the morning grocery run provided by the Guthrie, which was very cold.  Then I set out alone to take the light rail to the Mall of America, which was incredibly convenient, and I had a good time and got all the items I set out to find.  I probably saw less than half the mall, but it was very nice.  It&#8217;s not really that different from most malls, except for the giant roller coaster in the middle, and the fact that it&#8217;s so big that many of the standard mall stores actually have two or three locations within the mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of my interest in touring is to spend more time outside Manhattan and see regions and climates I&#8217;ve never been to. One of the things I have learned so far is that this planet of ours is crazy. In the grand scheme of things, New York and Minneapolis aren&#8217;t that far apart, and yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[44,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}