{"id":1728,"date":"2026-03-11T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:34:15","slug":"march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"March madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s snowing in Craig, and it can\u2019t seem to stop. Every time we look out the window, another bout of whiteout conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little background: I live in a rainforest. Prince of Wales Island, my home, has many microclimates, and Craig is probably the warmest and rainiest of them all. So why is it compulsively snowing in the middle of March? We\u2019re talking three feet in the back yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve lost track of how many times we\u2019ve shoveled the cul-de-sac and dug out our vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s no other explanation: the weather gods have lost their minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I\u2019ll make some snow ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"935\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.jpeg 935w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-768x577.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 935px) 100vw, 935px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"935\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2.jpeg 935w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2-768x577.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 935px) 100vw, 935px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s snowing in Craig, and it can\u2019t seem to stop. Every time we look out the window, another bout of whiteout conditions. A little background: I live in a rainforest. Prince of Wales Island, my home, has many microclimates, and Craig is probably the warmest and rainiest of them all. So why is it compulsively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[490,140,662,256],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-an-alaskan-educator-and-citizen","tag-rain-forest","tag-snow","tag-snow-in-march","tag-weather"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}