{"id":1332,"date":"2010-02-02T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2010-02-02T09:27:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:27:22","slug":"happy-groundhog-day-more-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/happy-groundhog-day-more-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Groundhog Day! More winter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Yahoo! News, the world famous <a title=\"Learn about the world famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punxsutawney_Phil\" target=\"_blank\">groundhog Punxsutawney Phil<\/a> has seen his shadow, which indicates six more weeks of <a title=\"Learn about winter as a season.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winter\" target=\"_blank\">winter<\/a>. Sorry to say this, but spring will not arrive early this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From <a title=\"Yahoo! News article about Groundhog Day.\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_groundhog_day\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo! News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cPunxsutawney (puhnk-suh-TAW&#8217;-nee) Phil has emerged to see his shadow before chilly revelers in Pennsylvania, meaning winter will last another six weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cGerman tradition holds that if a hibernating animal sees its shadow on Feb. 2 \u2014 the Christian holiday of Candlemas \u2014 winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow is seen, legend says spring will come early.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1333\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/groundhog_day_winter.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1333\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1333\" title=\"groundhog_day_winter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/groundhog_day_winter.jpg\" alt=\"Groundhog Day - more winter.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/groundhog_day_winter.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/groundhog_day_winter-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sorry folks - but there will be six more weeks of winter. Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry folks &#8211; but there will be six more weeks of winter. Famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[84],"tags":[99,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.novelldesignstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}