{"id":129,"date":"2006-01-07T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-01-07\/129"},"modified":"2006-01-07T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T00:45:08","slug":"lots-of-snow-in-niigata-some-snow-in-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-01-07\/129","title":{"rendered":"Lots of snow in Niigata, some snow in Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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\n<\/a>\n\nClearing snow in Niigata\n\nfrom Yahoo! Japan News<\/small>\n<\/center>\n<\/div>\n\n

\n\nNiigata (\u65b0\u6f5f) is an area of Japan that's gotten a lot<\/b> of snow --\nmore than 12 feet (3.8 meters) so far this year. Yesterday on the news I\nsaw<\/span> a video<\/span> of a tiny<\/span> car driving down the street, with accumulated snow\nstill on its roof. The snow was<\/span> at least as tall above the top of the car\nas the car itself was tall above the road (about four and a half<\/span> feet each,\nI'd guess). Someone had chiseled this thing out of a snowbank,<\/span> cleared the\nsnow from the hood and windows, and left all the snow on the roof. What had\npreviously been a tiny<\/span> car was now nine or ten feet tall. It was both<\/span>\nimpressive and comical. I searched<\/span> on the web for a similar<\/span> still photo,\nbut couldn't find it.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nWe were supposed to have gotten some snow ourselves last night, so I was<\/span>\nsurprised to wake up to find just a few<\/span> flakes falling. By the countable<\/span>\nflakes on a car<\/span> roof I could<\/span> see, it had apparently just<\/i> started\nsnowing. When I next<\/span> glanced out some 20 minutes later, I was again<\/span>\nsurprised, this time to see a thick<\/span> blanket of white.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nOf course, my camera is\nbroken<\/a> and my new\none<\/a> is still on order, but here's a shot<\/span> from our last snow which\napproximates what we have now:\n\n<\/p>

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\n\nI hope we get a pleasantly pretty blanket that stays for a while,<\/span> as my old\nneighbor from Cupertino is arriving tonight with his adult son on the first\nleg of an around the world trip. They're in Kyoto for about 40 hours, then\nin Tokyo for a couple<\/span> days, then Nairobi, Ireland, and London\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Niigata (\u65b0\u6f5f) is an area of Japan that's gotten a lot<\/b> of snow -- more than 12 feet (3.8 meters) so far this year. Yesterday on the news I saw a video of a tiny car driving down the street, with accumulated snow still on its roof. The snow was at least as tall above the top of the car as the car itself was tall above the road (about four and a half feet each, I'd guess). Someone had chiseled this thing out of a snowbank, cleared the snow from the hood and windows, and left all the [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}