{"id":2771,"date":"2013-12-05T18:24:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T02:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2013-12-10T11:13:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T19:13:56","slug":"gift-wrapped-in-white-victoria-12052013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2771","title":{"rendered":"Gift Wrapped in White \u2013 Victoria \u2013 [12\/05\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2772\" alt=\"snow\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snow-300x215.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snow-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/snow.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Over the world lies a blanket of white<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I woke up this morning to snow\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of you that are probably going \u2018so what, you\u2019re Canadian\u2019 \u2013 but you forget, I\u2019m from the<i> west<\/i> coast. We don\u2019t get snow, we get rain. I can\u2019t actually recall the last time we had snow in December\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>There is after all, a reason that at least one Christmas song says that \u2018Christmas in the northwest is a gift God wrapped in green\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But mother nature, I swear, sometimes knows\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not much, my friends back east will laugh, because they get feet of snow every year and have to dig out their cars to get to work. We don\u2019t get that. When we do get snow, it\u2019s like sugar icing, like the world is just giving us that little touch of white to make us remember what time of year it is. It\u2019s just like our rain (we always say we keep just enough to keep the grass green and the cherry blossoms pink and then we send the rest\u00a0 to Seattle or Vancouver)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Snow like this, it just\u2026wakes you up. It doesn\u2019t get in your way, it just\u2026frosts the world. It clings to your eyelashes and your coat and your scarf as you walk to the mall to pick up Christmas cards and groceries. It barely even gets the roads wet\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This? This is the kind of snow you want to dance in\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the world lies a blanket of white I woke up this morning to snow\u2026 There are a lot of you that are probably going \u2018so what, you\u2019re Canadian\u2019 \u2013 but you forget, I\u2019m from the west coast. We don\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2771\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[50,45,56],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacation","tag-christmas","tag-vacation-2","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-IH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}