{"id":24314,"date":"2019-03-06T08:17:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24314"},"modified":"2019-03-04T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T16:21:53","slug":"being-from-wisconsin-i-never-understood-the-groundhog-day-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/being-from-wisconsin-i-never-understood-the-groundhog-day-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Being From Wisconsin, I Never Understood The Groundhog Day Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, on Groundhog Day, they say if the groundhog sees his shadow, it&#8217;s six more weeks of winter, but if he does not, it will be an early spring.<\/p>\n<p>This always confused me as a child up north because six more weeks of winter would be an early spring.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing a lot of memes like this on my Facebook feed:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/groundhogliar.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And I think to myself, &#8220;It&#8217;s the beginning of March.  Why would you people think that winter is over?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s because I live here amongst the soft, indolent southern tribes now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, on Groundhog Day, they say if the groundhog sees his shadow, it&#8217;s six more weeks of winter, but if he does not, it will be an early spring. This always confused me as a child up north because six more weeks of winter would be an early spring. I&#8217;ve been seeing a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24315,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24314\/revisions\/24315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}