{"id":9995,"date":"2019-01-30T23:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T04:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2019-12-29T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T04:39:09","slug":"wednesday-january-30-2019-toronto-with-frosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=9995","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, January 30, 2019 \u2014 Toronto with Frosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9996\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"19-01-30 BLOG pic1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic1-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Attache ta tuque<\/em>! Toron\u00adto does\u00adn\u2019t usu\u00adal\u00adly get much snow, com\u00adpared to most of the rest of the coun\u00adtry.&nbsp;Mon\u00adtreal\u00aders laugh at our lame, half-heart\u00aded win\u00adters. It\u2019s posi\u00adtion on the west end of Lake Ontario, with a ridge of high\u00adlands to its west, means that the pre\u00advail\u00ading west\u00ader\u00adlies usu\u00adal\u00adly drop most of their snow before they reach the city.&nbsp;The clos\u00adest Amer\u00adi\u00adcan city, Buf\u00adfa\u00adlo, posi\u00adtioned at the east end of Lake Erie, gets much more snow.&nbsp;But every now and then a snow\u00adstorm will be big enough to dump a hefty load on Toron\u00adto.&nbsp;The evening it hit was a bit grim for Toron\u00adto\u00adni\u00adans, many of whom immi\u00adgrat\u00aded from warmer lands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9997\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9997\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9997 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"19-01-30 BLOG pic2\" width=\"275\" height=\"208\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9998\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9998 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"19-01-30 BLOG pic3\" width=\"277\" height=\"159\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But look at the mag\u00adic of the fol\u00adlow\u00ading sun\u00adny&nbsp;day:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9999\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9999\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic5.png\" alt=\"19-01-30 BLOG pic5\" width=\"1075\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic5.png 1075w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic5-300x156.png 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic5-768x400.png 768w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/19-01-30-BLOG-pic5-1024x533.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1075px) 100vw, 1075px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attache ta tuque! Toron\u00adto does\u00adn\u2019t usu\u00adal\u00adly get much snow, com\u00adpared to most of the rest of the coun\u00adtry.&nbsp;Mon\u00adtreal\u00aders laugh at our lame, half-heart\u00aded win\u00adters. It\u2019s posi\u00adtion on the west end of Lake Ontario, with a ridge of high\u00adlands to&nbsp;its&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=9995\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ah-blog-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10005,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions\/10005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}