{"id":179569,"date":"2017-12-31T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/31\/another-sign-of-the-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2017-12-31T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T01:02:00","slug":"another-sign-of-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/31\/another-sign-of-the-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Sign of the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Ottowa, a New Year&#8217;s concert was canceled, and a hockey game was moved indoors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/dec\/30\/ottawa-concert-cancellation-is-proof-of-concept-it-can-be-too-cold-for-canadians\">because it was too cold for Canadians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Too cold for Canadians,&#8221;  there was a phrase I never expected to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">First no hockey, now no music. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/weather\/ottawa\">Ottawa<\/a> has declared that it\u2019s officially too cold \u2013 even for Canadians. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Heritage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/weather\/canada\">Canada<\/a> has announced that a New Year\u2019s Eve concert planned for Ottawa has been cancelled because of an extreme cold weather warning. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The party\u2019s cancellation on Friday came after the federal government also moved an outdoor hockey tournament indoors and away from a C$5.6m (\u00a33.3m) temporary ice rink installed on Parliament Hill. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The forecast overnight low for the nation\u2019s capital on Sunday is -29C <\/span>[-20\u00b0F]<span style=\"color: blue;\"> , nearly 20 degrees <\/span>[36\u00b0F]<span style=\"color: blue;\"> colder than the seasonal average. Public skating and a fireworks show on the city\u2019s Parliament Hill will go ahead as planned on Sunday night, but Heritage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a> warned revellers have been warned to dress for the weather and \u201cprepare accordingly to prevent frostbite and other injuries\u201d.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My suggestion would be for Canadians to watch the fireworks on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ottowa, a New Year&#8217;s concert was canceled, and a hockey game was moved indoors because it was too cold for Canadians. &#8220;Too cold for Canadians,&#8221; there was a phrase I never expected to say: First no hockey, now no music. Ottawa has declared that it\u2019s officially too cold \u2013 even for Canadians. Heritage Canada &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[483,475,514,596],"class_list":["post-179569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-anthropogenic-climate-change","tag-canada","tag-teotwawki","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}