{"id":10550,"date":"2014-02-14T06:12:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T11:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2014-02-14T06:53:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T11:53:56","slug":"formula-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10550","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Formula 0&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>its formula 0 and I couldn&#8217;t be happier. Its 3:30 in the morning and I woke up after 4 hours of sleep &#8211; good sleep &#8211; dreaming about my ambitions for the School Board and how things are coming together. Hahaha hahahahahahaha <\/p>\n<p>OMG. I can&#8217;t believe how great my Samsung cell phone is. At the end of the last paragraph are all the &#8220;hahas&#8221;. They really are ha ha&#8217;s because after reading that first paragraph back with its mistranslation of &#8220;below zero&#8221; as &#8220;formula 0&#8221; I started laughing.  At least the phone got that right. <\/p>\n<p>I knew I would have to get one of these phones about a year and a half ago when my son talked into his Android to Google something. Right now I&#8217;m dictating into mine in lieu of typing on my computer which is currently keeping me at arm&#8217;s length updating itself. While I waited I headed to the kitchen to brew some coffee and mix yogurt honey and fruit together. My patio thermometer registered 3 degrees below zero. It dropped another degree to 4 below before I had finished my pre-breakfast. That pleased me because the Duluth is about to set another weather record. <\/p>\n<p>We already broke the record for the number of consecutive below zero days. I think its now 22 days. Now we are about to break another cold weather record that was set the year Claudia and I moved to Duluth from the winter of 1974-75. That year we had something like 52 or 59 days that went below zero. A couple days ago we were three days short of that record. Now we are two short of it with lots of winter still ahead of us. <\/p>\n<p>My primary measure of a cold Duluth winter is having Lake Superior freeze over. That&#8217;s happened a couple times. 15 years ago or so I walked about a mile away from the shoreline over the ice following a skittish Fox that wasn&#8217;t too keen on my tracking him. <\/p>\n<p>That first year in Duluth got off to a cold start. Claudia and I spent the night in a tent that August in Jay Cook Park before scouting out a new home. The next morning its canvas was covered with frost. <\/p>\n<p>This post wasn&#8217;t going to be about the weather until I read that &#8220;formula 0&#8221; and got my hahahahahas translated. BTW, th hahas in the last sentence are fake laughs. I guess a smartphone is only so smart. <\/p>\n<p>As I explained this post came about while I waited for my computer to update itself. It has been extensively edited since its first posting because it was a bit of a muddle. I&#8217;m keeping it because I like the anecdote about the weather. Now that the computer is available again I&#8217;m on the the post that filled my head upon getting out of bed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>its formula 0 and I couldn&#8217;t be happier. Its 3:30 in the morning and I woke up after 4 hours of sleep &#8211; good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10573,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions\/10573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}