{"id":674,"date":"2011-08-29T20:56:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T00:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=674"},"modified":"2011-08-29T20:56:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T00:56:56","slug":"goodnight-irene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Goodnight, Irene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, internet.  I&#8217;m posting which means I do, in fact, have power &#8212; unlike most of Long Island.  Something like half of the households are still out following this weekend&#8217;s hurricane, so I&#8217;m feeling pretty fortunate.  We had a lot of wind and rain, but now that the storm has passed it&#8217;s peaceful and everything smells fresh and clean.<\/p>\n<p>We did have some pretty large trees go down in the storm:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/6089330013\/\" title=\"Irene's Aftermath by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6196\/6089330013_0c47287244.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Irene's Aftermath\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>like this big old one by the public library.  The whole thing just came up out of the ground, roots and all.  My yard got off pretty lightly in comparison:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/6089875834\/\" title=\"Irene's Aftermath by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6071\/6089875834_e71e0cc4c6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Irene's Aftermath\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We cleaned up everything today, so I decided to celebrate by having a winding party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sternel\/6094542929\/\" title=\"Winding party by abbieprime, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6067\/6094542929_2da520e0da.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Winding party\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was very strange to sit outside winding yarn in such fresh-smelling air, looking at the perfectly sunny, blue sky, when it was so stormy just a day before.  I&#8217;m very glad my family &#038; neighborhood got through OK, and my heart&#8217;s going out to Vermont and the shore communities in NC and NJ that have been so decimated.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, internet. I&#8217;m posting which means I do, in fact, have power &#8212; unlike most of Long Island. Something like half of the households are still out following this weekend&#8217;s hurricane, so I&#8217;m feeling pretty fortunate. We had a lot of wind and rain, but now that the storm has passed it&#8217;s peaceful and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Goodnight, Irene&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}