{"id":629,"date":"2010-12-06T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T16:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2010-12-06T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T16:25:35","slug":"scunnered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Scunnered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;yes, just like everyone else.\u00a0 That&#8217;s scunnered with the snow, in case anyone should be in any doubt.\u00a0\u00a0 Now we have the sunset, hidden behind dense drifts of rolling, freezing fog.\u00a0\u00a0 Snow fell steadily from at least 6:30 a.m. until after noon today, all the carefully cleared driveways have been filled in again.\u00a0\u00a0 So, hooray, back to wrapping presents, what joy.<\/p>\n<p>Some good things:\u00a0 actually talking to our neighbours; helping out; being helped out; the quality of the light and how quickly it changes; the fantastic monochrome vistas glimpsed from the train, such as Inverkeithing Cemetery this afternoon and other views one comes across momentarily, for example looking back up Calton Hill from the sludge- and slush-fest that is the pedestrian crossing outside the  <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">North British<\/span>New Balmoral Hotel;\u00a0 knowing that most of my presents are wrapped and the cards all written; and feeding the birds.<\/p>\n<p>If only I didn&#8217;t have to go out in the pigging stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;yes, just like everyone else.\u00a0 That&#8217;s scunnered with the snow, in case anyone should be in any doubt.\u00a0\u00a0 Now we have the sunset, hidden behind dense drifts of rolling, freezing fog.\u00a0\u00a0 Snow fell steadily from at least 6:30 a.m. until after noon today, all the carefully cleared driveways have been filled in again.\u00a0\u00a0 So, hooray, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-wildlife","category-kirsty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}