{"id":28593,"date":"2006-12-26T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-26T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/12\/26\/i-cant-believe-they-actually-cant-think-of-a-name-for-the-recent-storm\/"},"modified":"2006-12-26T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-26T10:00:19","slug":"i-cant-believe-they-actually-cant-think-of-a-name-for-the-recent-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061226-19\/?p=28593","title":{"rendered":"I can&#039;t believe they actually can&#039;t think of a name for the recent storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003490012_stormname22m.html\"> the National Weather Service is inviting suggestions from the public on what to call the recent windstorm<\/a>. They&#8217;re baffled because &#8220;the storm didn&#8217;t fall on a holiday.&#8221;\n Huh?\n The storm blew in on the evening of the 14th, but its effects weren&#8217;t really felt until the morning of the 15th, and the first dark night for everyone was&#8230; <i>the first night of Hanukkah<\/i>, the Festival of Lights. Everybody in the Seattle area was lighting candles and celebrating Hanukkah (mostly unwittingly).\n Gosh, I wonder what we should call this storm? If you have any ideas, send your suggestion to namethewindstorm@noaa.gov.<\/p>\n<p> (By the way, in case you missed it, here&#8217;s the picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/zoom\/html\/2003480656.html\"> the house that had ten trees fall on it<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times reports that the National Weather Service is inviting suggestions from the public on what to call the recent windstorm. They&#8217;re baffled because &#8220;the storm didn&#8217;t fall on a holiday.&#8221; Huh? The storm blew in on the evening of the 14th, but its effects weren&#8217;t really felt until the morning of the 15th, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-28593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The Seattle Times reports that the National Weather Service is inviting suggestions from the public on what to call the recent windstorm. They&#8217;re baffled because &#8220;the storm didn&#8217;t fall on a holiday.&#8221; Huh? The storm blew in on the evening of the 14th, but its effects weren&#8217;t really felt until the morning of the 15th, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}