{"id":885,"date":"2025-02-20T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/?p=885"},"modified":"2025-02-20T00:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T06:23:01","slug":"cold-enough-to-freeze-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/cold-enough-to-freeze-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Enough to Freeze the&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanksgiving and Christmas 2024 and New Year and Valentines Day 2025 have come and gone. We&#8217;ve been sick here in Kansas since a week or two into January. Not just the old rhinovirus (bad cold) but that godawful Norovirus and then type A flu although I avoided the flu so far but suspect rhinovirus has taken hold. I&#8217;m hitting it with lots of echinacea and zinc and we&#8217;ll see how it goes. I have a physical therapy session scheduled for Friday. It was prescribed ostensibly for lower back pain, but it&#8217;s actually bursitis in the right hip\/leg. And then there&#8217;s the weather. We had a blizzard a couple weeks ago with near zero temps, and this week it&#8217;s snow again but less of it, but colder, not just near zero but below zero. As I&#8217;m writing this the device on my wrist says the temp is -2 with &#8220;feels like&#8221; of -13. Just going out to check the mailbox (empty!) was enough to numb my fingers, wearing gloves. Supposed to be colder tomorrow and Friday. Which reminds me&#8230; In answer to the question, &#8220;How cold was it?&#8221; our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/gaskan.com\/\">GasKan<\/a> explain the source of the answer, &#8220;It was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!&#8221; I&#8217;m afraid I have no pictures of brass monkeys, but may have some depicting examples of our new year so far. If I have the time and\/or the energy, I&#8217;ll add a couple of them here, but I don&#8217;t have at the moment. For now, g&#8217;night, and watch out for them brass monkeys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving and Christmas 2024 and New Year and Valentines Day 2025 have come and gone. We&#8217;ve been sick here in Kansas since a week or two into January. Not just the old rhinovirus (bad cold) but that godawful Norovirus and then type A flu although I avoided the flu so far but suspect rhinovirus has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2,25,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-matters","category-language","category-life","category-news","comment-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}