{"id":1457,"date":"2006-03-21T20:38:20","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T04:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/21\/im-actually-a-little-proud-of-this\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:44:18","slug":"im-actually-a-little-proud-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/03\/21\/im-actually-a-little-proud-of-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Actually A Little Proud Of This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, folks. You ever wonder why I moved away from Syracuse, my hometown? Here&#8217;s one reason: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldensnowball.com\/\">123 inches<\/a> of snow this season. That&#8217;s 10.5 feet, people! Syracuse wins the Golden Snowball award this year and almost every year. In March 1993, there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blizzard_of_1993\">blizzard<\/a> which broke the records for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syracuse,_New_York#Climate\">all areas affected by it<\/a>. After the 1993-1994 winter season, when we <a href=\"http:\/\/web.syr.edu\/~wrt405\/normal\/temperature.html\">received 192.1 inches<\/a> of snow (that&#8217;s <em>16 feet<\/em>!), I decided to head to a warmer climate. I went to the opposite extreme and moved to Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my Mom for emailing the news to me. You have to be made of sturdy stuff if you live in Syracuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, folks. You ever wonder why I moved away from Syracuse, my hometown? Here&#8217;s one reason: 123 inches of snow this season. That&#8217;s 10.5 feet, people! Syracuse wins the Golden Snowball award this year and almost every year. In March 1993, there was a blizzard which broke the records for all areas affected by it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11413,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/11413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}