{"id":1332,"date":"2008-01-30T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2008-01-30T19:00:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T03:00:31","slug":"cold-very-very-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/cold-very-very-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold.  Very very cold."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Workshop by Chris Corrigan, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chriscorrigan\/2230851775\/\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Workshop\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2230\/2230851775_3eb36eb868_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><em>Regina, Saskatchewan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I love it here&#8230;big open prairie sky meets wide expanse of earth.  And over it all, the air is chilled, so cold that I actually succumbed to the spit test.  I spat on the sidewalk and immediately poked at my saliva with my boot.  It had instantly turned to ice powder.  The thermometer in my ride&#8217;s car said -41.  By this afternoon it had warmed up  to -28, which is the current temperature.  If the warming trend continues, it&#8217;s supposed to be a balmy -14 by tomorrow afternoon. That is a 27 degree difference: the difference between a freezing fall day and a too hot summer afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine how people survived out here in the old days.  Getting to the fire, as Chistina Baldwin says, is indeed a life and death situation.<\/p>\n<p>In a training workshop today with some lovely community leaders and tomorrow we run a day long Open Space for the community. Exploring hosting and getting ready to harvest leadership for community change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regina, Saskatchewan I love it here&#8230;big open prairie sky meets wide expanse of earth. And over it all, the air is chilled, so cold that I actually succumbed to the spit test. I spat on the sidewalk and immediately poked at my saliva with my boot. It had instantly turned to ice powder. The thermometer in my ride&#8217;s car said -41. By this afternoon it had warmed up to -28, which is the current temperature. If the warming trend continues, it&#8217;s supposed to be a balmy -14 by tomorrow afternoon. That is a 27 degree difference: the difference between a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[19,6,12,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation","category-facilitation","category-first-nations","category-open-space","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-lu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}