{"id":1241,"date":"2008-12-20T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/let-it-snow\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:11:55","slug":"let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/12\/let-it-snow.html","title":{"rendered":"Let it Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Done shoveling. But also looking out the window, I see more snow falling\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Found myself being grumpy for a minute.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Frank, for another perspective.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F8BH4M9V1N8\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F8BH4M9V1N8<\/a>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-8007610894187669614?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Done shoveling. But also looking out the window, I see more snow falling\u2026 Found myself being grumpy for a minute. 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