{"id":2306,"date":"2013-03-05T22:58:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T02:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2013-03-05T22:58:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T02:58:54","slug":"view-deck-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2306","title":{"rendered":"My View from the Deck: Part Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was dusk; the five of us were gathered in the open kitchen and living area of our house, all in various stages of writing, cooking, video gaming, and sibling bugging. Momentarily, I looked up from my computer and caught a glimpse of the drama unfolding.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4914\"<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually snowing on the beach!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I called out, in reference to an earlier rumor of snow that I had dismissed as unlikely, and we all hurried to the window.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, the flakes were indeed falling.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4921\"<\/a>After it grew dark, however, we gave up on expecting any accumulation, as the snow seemed light and appeared to melt on contact with any surface.<\/p>\n

Imagine our surprise, then, to wake up the next morning to this,<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4925\"<\/a>\"IMG_4926\"<\/a>and this,<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4930\"<\/a>\"IMG_4931\"<\/a>and even this.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4932\"<\/a>By Northern standards, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be hardly worth noting, as by late morning all the oceanside snow was gone.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4934\"<\/a>But my children are Southerners (albeit ones spawned by Yankees), so they got their fix, mashing their hands in it just for its feel,<\/p>\n

\"100_0711\"<\/a> and dreaming about the next time when enough might fall to make a sandman covered with snow.<\/a><\/p>\n

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It was dusk; the five of us were gathered in the open kitchen and living area of our house, all in various stages of writing, cooking, video gaming, and sibling bugging. Momentarily, I looked up from my computer and caught a glimpse of the drama unfolding. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually snowing on the beach!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I called out, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[1421,1422,1420,1191,1419,1423],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-an-island-view","tag-island-weather","tag-snow-in-carolina","tag-snow-on-the-beach","tag-snow-on-the-coast","tag-strange-beach-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}