{"id":471,"date":"2008-03-05T09:36:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T09:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/03\/grrr.html"},"modified":"2008-03-05T09:36:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T09:36:06","slug":"grrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/03\/grrr.html","title":{"rendered":"Grrr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 5.<br \/>\nSnow Day.<br \/>\n<em>March 5,\u00a0 <\/em>I said.<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a1Ya basta!<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom this morning. I call it: <em>Boy, Beach Ball, Butterfly Net and Slide in the Snow. In MARCH.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/amywelborn\/2311910119\/\" title=\"snow11 by amywelborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2140\/2311910119_4c89dd640a.jpg\" alt=\"snow11\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI also call it, <em>Please Get Tired and Take a Good Nap This Afternoon So I Can Finish Writing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicwomenoffaithconference.com\/index.asp\">My Talk For Saturday<\/a><\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicwomenoffaithconference.com\/index.asp\">.<\/a><br \/>\nI also call it, <em>My Husband is in California, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gashwingomes.blogspot.com\/\">Gashwin, Aquilina and Hahn are in Rome <\/a>, one of my sons is going to Ireland tomorrow, and I&#8217;m in Northern Indiana in the Snow<\/em>. <em>On a Snow Day. In MARCH.<\/em><br \/>\nOkay, there are perks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/amywelborn\/2311909987\/\" title=\"snow12 by amywelborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2316\/2311909987_9240ce9192.jpg\" alt=\"snow12\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ll take it.<br \/>\n\u00a0<em>This time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 5. Snow Day. March 5,\u00a0 I said. \u00a1Ya basta! From this morning. I call it: Boy, Beach Ball, Butterfly Net and Slide in the Snow. In MARCH.&#8221; I also call it, Please Get Tired and Take a Good Nap This Afternoon So I Can Finish Writing My Talk For Saturday. I also call it,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grrr. - Via Media<\/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:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/03\/grrr.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grrr. - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 5. Snow Day. March 5,\u00a0 I said. \u00a1Ya basta! 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