{"id":2904,"date":"2010-09-06T16:24:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2010-09-06T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:24:47","slug":"weather-forecasts-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/09\/06\/weather-forecasts-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Weathering Those Weather Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV weather reporters in the New York metropolitan area had a wonderful time last week, warning us about Hurricane Earl and all the rain that was surely coming our way.  They gave us &#8220;teaser&#8221; reports early in the news shows, making us wait, as usual, for forecasts that turned out to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We had hurricane watches and warnings galore &#8230; but no actual rain.  In short, New York City weather predictions were a washout.<\/p>\n<p>Weathering Those Weather Reports (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Why use weather reports as your guide?<br \/>\nI really don&#8217;t mean to be snide,<br \/>\nBut they tend to be wrong<br \/>\nAnd they take way too long.<br \/>\nWant a forecast that&#8217;s right? Go outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV weather reporters in the New York metropolitan area had a wonderful time last week, warning us about Hurricane Earl and all the rain that was surely coming our way. They gave us &#8220;teaser&#8221; reports early in the news shows, making us wait, as usual, for forecasts that turned out to be wrong. We had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,73,20,71,59],"tags":[1453,861,864,4947,860],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-limericks","category-new-york-limericks","category-outdoors-humor","category-television-tv-humor","category-weather-humor","tag-hurricanes","tag-new-york-weather","tag-tv-weather-reports","tag-weather-humor","tag-weatherman-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}