{"id":11644,"date":"2018-01-07T19:22:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T03:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=11644"},"modified":"2018-01-07T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T07:06:35","slug":"boogers-froze-today-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2018\/01\/07\/boogers-froze-today-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"My Boogers Froze Today.  Twice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my job lets me work from anywhere with an internet connection, spending two weeks in Fairbanks in the dead of winter seemed like it would be a great idea.  Audrey and I will be huddled together for warmth in the coming days, hoping that the northern lights make an appearance at some point.<\/p>\n<p>After arriving late last night we spent today&#8217;s sparse daylight hours bundled in every piece of clothing that we own, roaming past the frozen Chena River through Griffin Park in downtown Fairbanks, before we were finally forced into the (very impressive) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morristhompsoncenter.org\/\">Visitor Information Center<\/a> to escape the -8&deg;F temperatures.  Tomorrow we head further north to spend the rest of the week in a tiny cabin outside of the city lights in the hopes that the Auroras might peek out at us once or twice.  Wish us luck.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><figure id=\"attachment_11646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11646\" style=\"width: 1242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter img-caption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3843.png\" alt=\"Fairbanks Weather Outlook\" width=\"414\" height=\"736\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11646\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3843.png 1242w, http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3843-169x300.png 169w, http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3843-768x1365.png 768w, http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3843-576x1024.png 576w, http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_3843-1200x2133.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 85vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The weather forecast for the week gives us nearly four hours a day of the sun&#8217;s warmth, so we should have decent odds of not freezing to death.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2018-01-A\/0049-fairbanks-griffin-park-frosty-branch-in-winter.jpg\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Frosty tree branch in Griffin Park, Fairbanks in Winter\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">This tree in Griffin Park got dominated by the Fairbanks winter.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2018-01-A\/0036-fairbanks-griffin-park-monument-in-winter.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" alt=\"Statue in Griffin Park, Fairbanks in Winter\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">Even the statues in Fairbanks are freezing.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my job lets me work from anywhere with an internet connection, spending two weeks in Fairbanks in the dead of winter seemed like it would be a great idea. Audrey and I will be huddled together for warmth in the coming days, hoping that the northern lights make an appearance at some point. After &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2018\/01\/07\/boogers-froze-today-twice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Boogers Froze Today.  Twice.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,30],"class_list":["post-11644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-northern-lights-2018","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11644"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11659,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11644\/revisions\/11659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}