{"id":320,"date":"2008-03-23T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2008-03-23T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T11:49:00","slug":"brixton-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton snow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/snow-brixton.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton snow!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, not a flake settled and it soon turned into bloody rain, but for a moment Brixton looked lovely and wintery.<\/p>\n<p>I love snow. In fact, I love winter too, but the deep, thick, crisp snowfalls of my youth seem a far distant memory now. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/wales\/images\/cefn02.jpg\" alt=\"Cefn Onn snow\" \/><br \/>One of my favourite memories was waiting for a train at Cefn Onn station in Cardiff after a big snowstorm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the winter of 1977, the snow was so bad that I found myself stood waist high in a snowdrift waiting for the morning train. Needless to say, the driver failed to see me as he hurtled past my platform, and I got blasted with a covering of snow for my troubles!<\/p>\n<p>Seeing this as a sign from above to go home, put my feet up and stay in the warm, I called in sick!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/wales\/cefn_onn.html\">Cefn Onn memories<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/chicago\/images\/chic04.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago snow!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to snow, Chicago knows how to dish up the stuff, and on my visit there in 1999 (to be a guest on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.com\/Mag\/j_jones.html\">Jenny Jones Show<\/a>), I was rewarded with some astonishingly beautiful snowscapes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/chicago\/index.html\">Chicago snow<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/features\/images\/snow2.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton snow!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have been blessed with a few snowy days in Brixton over the years though, even if the snow didn&#8217;t tarry for long. I miss snow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/features\/snow.html\">Brixton snow 2003<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/snow.html\">Brixton snow 2004<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/snow3.html\">Brixton snow 2007<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/snow-2007.html\">Brixton snow 2007 (2)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, not a flake settled and it soon turned into bloody rain, but for a moment Brixton looked lovely and wintery. I love snow. In fact, I love winter too, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6290,"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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,15,1],"tags":[1191],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-snow","category-stuff","tag-brixton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/snow-brixton.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-5a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}