{"id":138,"date":"2006-01-12T00:09:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T08:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2006\/01\/12\/first-snow-2\/"},"modified":"2006-01-12T00:09:25","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T08:09:25","slug":"first-snow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2006\/01\/first-snow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"First Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/roller\/resources\/syw\/IMG_1541.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" style=\"float: left; margin: 2em 2em\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/roller\/resources\/syw\/IMG_1547.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" style=\"float: right; margin: 2em 0em 0em 2em\"> <\/p>\n<p>Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.  I am giddy like a kid.  Not many times in my life snow flakes fall where I can reach.<\/p>\n<p>\nClearly snow removal equipment is not a familar concept here.  People try to clear away the snow with the most basic tool &#8211; sweeper.  These two guys have been sweeping the same pathway for half an hour when I took the picture.  When they reach the end, they walk back to the beginning and start again.<\/p>\n<p>Like all cities that experience snow less than 10 times a year, Beijing is paralyzed.  In 45 minutes, I advanced less than a mile on the highway and passed 2 accidents.  When the radio reported 30 accidents in the hour started from 8:30am, I decided to turn back work from home today.  Not that I may get into an accident myself, I won&apos;t reach office before noon at this speed.<\/p>\n<p>\nWorking remotely with a VPN connection and attending &#8220;meetings&#8221; over phone forwarded to my cell, I certainly realized, &#8220;This is not much different from in California.&#8221;  In fact, without looking out the window, this feels pretty <i>at home<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. I am giddy like a kid. Not many times in my life snow flakes fall where I can reach. Clearly snow removal equipment is not a familar concept here. People try &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2006\/01\/first-snow-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}