{"id":6772,"date":"2011-01-08T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=6772"},"modified":"2013-11-05T10:51:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T16:51:14","slug":"wintry-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2011\/01\/wintry-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Wintry Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the rain continued all day.  The temperature stayed steady at 36F.  The roads were wet but not icy.  Karl and I took advantage of conditions due to deteriorate and headed to the lake for a look see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jan11\/Lake1441Lg.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jan11\/Lake1441Lg.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was drizzling and I did not have my camera pack.  I hoped to drive down to get some photos but the road nearest the lake was a sheet of ice so I parked above and we walked down through the slushy snow with only my phone camera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jan11\/Lake1439Lg.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jan11\/Lake1439Lg.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a January day in Montana it was balmy.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, it finally returned to below freezing temperatures and the slush is turning to ice.  My driveway conditions were improved slightly by some wintry mix of precipitation that ended up as a crunchy topping that allowed some grab for walking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jan11\/Lake0958Lg.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jan11\/Lake0958Lg.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the driveway, this morning, some blue sky.  But, we will not be going anywhere.  The road is like the driveway &#8211; glare ice with a slightly crunchy toping&#8230;a wintry mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/8\/2011 Flathead Lake from Wayfarer&#8217;s Park, Bigfork, MT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13754,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772\/revisions\/13754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}