{"id":450,"date":"2008-01-18T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=450"},"modified":"2008-01-18T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T23:19:08","slug":"i-am-from-alabama-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"I am from Alabama, after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it&#8230;I&#8217;m staying up late tonight to see if it snows.<\/p>\n<p>Snow doesn&#8217;t happen often enough here to not be a big deal.  I&#8217;ve lived in Birmingham over five winters, and I&#8217;ve seen snow that accumulated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1122productions.com\/brandon\/archives\/000065.html\">one time<\/a>.  And even that wasn&#8217;t all that much.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s also the inner child in me.  I like seeing it snow; I love seeing the ground covered in white.  It&#8217;ll be interesting if it does happen, seeing it on my own yard for the first time.  I think about Ricky and Tammy&#8217;s new baby, about the fact that she might see snow for the first time before she&#8217;s two weeks old.  Part of me wishes we already had our new dog so we could see it playing in the snow.  I hope that there&#8217;s enough to make snowballs, so I can have a snowball fight with my wife for the first time (entirely good-natured fighting, of course).<\/p>\n<p>Snow&#8217;s more magical for us here in the south.  Up north, it&#8217;s just another seasonal event.  (For what it&#8217;s worth, we probably take warm beaches for granted.)  And I&#8217;m glad that I&#8217;m not so grown up that the part of me that wants to see the magic happen as soon as I can can still convince the tired man who worked hard all week to stay up, just in case crystalline ice flakes fall from the sky.<\/p>\n<p>And given that, even if it doesn&#8217;t snow, I think it&#8217;s time well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it&#8230;I&#8217;m staying up late tonight to see if it snows. Snow doesn&#8217;t happen often enough here to not be a big deal. I&#8217;ve lived in Birmingham over five winters, and I&#8217;ve seen snow that accumulated one time. And even that wasn&#8217;t all that much. I guess it&#8217;s also the inner child in me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-insightful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}