{"id":1622,"date":"2025-02-20T20:07:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2025-02-20T20:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T02:07:31","slug":"winter-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/2025\/02\/20\/winter-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1623\" src=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/2025-02-19-22StrntRzHPShrpBrtnCntrstFF-KA-OAM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/2025-02-19-22StrntRzHPShrpBrtnCntrstFF-KA-OAM.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/2025-02-19-22StrntRzHPShrpBrtnCntrstFF-KA-OAM-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maybe there is freezing rain, sleet or snow.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Maybe there is none of those.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In the United States in the winter months<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Somewhere it is bound to be cold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Strong brisk winds blow out of the north.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Those winds bring an arctic feel to the air.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Piling on blankets or wearing more clothes<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Helps to evade at least some of the cold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Physical acts like rubbing hands together,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Shivering and shaking your arms and legs,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Warms your body by generating energy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That helps to counteract some of the cold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes it\u2019s best to think about warmth.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sometimes it\u2019s best to look at warm things.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sometimes it helps to warm up your body<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By imagining warmth instead of the cold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/kathy-mcclellan.pixels.com\/featured\/salt-lamp-rocks-kathy-k-mcclellan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong>to see a larger version of today\u2019s featured image and to read the story about the photograph\u2019s creation.<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">&nbsp; Maybe there is freezing rain, sleet or snow. Maybe there is none of those. In the United States in the winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1821,125,1822,1820,887,549,1125,1819,689],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-arctic","tag-cold","tag-imagining","tag-north","tag-shaking","tag-shivering","tag-temperature","tag-winds","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/kathykmcclellan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}