{"id":58876,"date":"2018-04-13T13:56:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58876"},"modified":"2018-04-13T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:56:59","slug":"weather-waterworks-fireworks-how-the-mindworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=58876","title":{"rendered":"Weather: waterworks, fireworks, & how the mindworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — and reality alwys strains towards a metaphor of itself, doesn’t it? ]
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Today’s weather headline<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This isn’t a metaphor, weather here means weather, even thought you might imagine it’s politics it’s talking about. If it was politics and we were lucky, the header might read:<\/p>\n

Wild storm raging across globe to unleash all modes of extreme weather through the weekend<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here are some of the details, graphically — very graphically — represented:<\/p>\n

Blizzard conditions and heavy snow<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Extreme fire danger<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oh, my!<\/p>\n

Tornadoes and severe storms<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Torrents!<\/p>\n

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Just suppose this was politics, after all!<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Another headline today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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That’s almost <\/em>meteorological, ne?<\/p>\n

Or try this one<\/a>, a week out, and international in scope:<\/p>\n

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I’d be lost without my wifi..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron — and reality alwys strains towards a metaphor of itself, doesn’t it? ] . Today’s weather headline: This isn’t a metaphor, weather here means weather, even thought you might imagine it’s politics it’s talking about. If it was politics and we were lucky, the header might read: Wild storm raging across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1626,526,134,858,319,875,187,1627,1,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaos","category-charles-cameron","category-computers","category-internet","category-map","category-metaphor","category-politics","category-storm","category-uncategorized","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58876"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58895,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58876\/revisions\/58895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}