{"id":871,"date":"2011-03-06T09:57:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T14:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=871"},"modified":"2011-03-06T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T14:57:26","slug":"thought-id-seen-everything-until-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Thought I&#8217;d seen everything&#8230; until this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">This morning, the grader that was out to do snow removal slid got stuck on our street on the hill. It was hilarious to watch the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 operator trying to back up and get free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Unfortunately, by the time I ran in the house and grabbed my BlackBerry, it was unstuck and off on its merry way. And since I was in my pyjamas, I couldn&#8217;t stay outside too<a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stuck-grader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stuck-grader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stuck-grader.jpg 389w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stuck-grader-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a> long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you look closely, you can see the blades to the right of the vehicles parked on the street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">A little bit of entertainment for an otherwise nasty day weather-wise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the grader that was out to do snow removal slid got stuck on our street on the hill. 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Unfortunately, by the time I ran in the house and grabbed my BlackBerry, it was unstuck and off on its merry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thought I&#8217;d seen everything&#8230; until this morning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thought I&#039;d seen everything... until this morning - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=871\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thought I&#039;d seen everything... until this morning - Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This morning, the grader that was out to do snow removal slid got stuck on our street on the hill. 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