{"id":29,"date":"2006-02-02T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T21:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/02\/02\/groundhog-day"},"modified":"2006-02-02T16:42:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T21:42:49","slug":"groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/02\/02\/groundhog-day","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now, for another fuzzy, predictive session of&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><font size=4>Here&#8217;s To You!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><b>So I raise my glass and say, &#8220;Here&#8217;s to you, groundhog!&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Today, February 2, some groundhog in Pennsylvania emerged from his little hole, saw his shadow, shrieked, dived back into his hole, and shut the door with a sign that read &#8220;Will Return in 6 Weeks&#8221;. Hopefully by then, he thinks, the scary shadow will be gone.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt is on this day we give praise to the groundhog. A creature whose presence on every other day of the year means woe to your lawn is today a cute, furry, little meteorologist. Isn&#8217;t that adorable? They redeem themselves so nicely. While crawling out of their holes on a bright enough day may scare them, making them hide from their shadows, you&#8217;d think they&#8217;d be able to outwit those traps the Animal Control folks set. Oh, well.<\/p>\n<p>So this is for you, cute fuzzy underground rodent, telling us what the weather will be like over the coming weeks. You fill that void between MLK Day and Valentine&#8217;s Day. You inspired some Bill Murray movie. You&#8217;re fun to see crawling around, because it&#8217;s fun to see cute little creatures around. So you rule. :b:<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s six more weeks of winter folks. The groundhog has spoken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now, for another fuzzy, predictive session of&#8230;. Here&#8217;s To You! So I raise my glass and say, &#8220;Here&#8217;s to you, groundhog!&#8221; That&#8217;s right. Today, February 2, some groundhog in Pennsylvania emerged from his little hole, saw his shadow, shrieked, dived back into his hole, and shut the door with a sign that read &#8220;Will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2006\/02\/02\/groundhog-day\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Groundhog Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heres-to-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}