{"id":198,"date":"2007-02-02T11:29:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T11:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:45","slug":"groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMy life is feeling a bit more like Groundhog Day these days, and I&#8217;m sorry to report that I saw my shadow today which indicates that my own personal winter seems destined to stay for longer than I&#8217;d expected. At any rate, I&#8217;m relieved by the the predictions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbrucepeninsula.com\/index.cfm?member=willie\">Wiarton Willie<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wildlifepark.gov.ns.ca\/animals\/index.asp?show=groundhog\">Shubenacadie Sam<\/a>.  Their American cousin didn&#8217;t see his shadow, either. Who knew about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundhogsday.com\/groundhogcentral.php\">all these other guys<\/a>? (update: Don&#8217;t forget <a href=\"http:\/\/travelvideo.tv\/news\/more.php?id=A3917_0_1_0_M\">Claude the Cajun Crawfish<\/a> either! Thanks to Heidi for that one&#8230;)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, as <a href=\"http:\/\/reassignedtime.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/one-of-my-favorite-things-about-james.html\">Dr. Crazy&#8217;s blog<\/a> reminded me today, it&#8217;s also the birthday of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesjoyce.ie\/\">James<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themodernword.com\/joyce\/\">Joyce<\/a> and the 85th anniversary of the publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poldy.com\/orchises.htm\">Ulysses<\/a>! Now that&#8217;s something well worth celebrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My life is feeling a bit more like Groundhog Day these days, and I&#8217;m sorry to report that I saw my shadow today which indicates that my own personal winter seems destined to stay for longer than I&#8217;d expected. At any rate, I&#8217;m relieved by the the predictions of Wiarton Willie and Shubenacadie Sam. Their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}