{"id":3272,"date":"2023-02-05T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T12:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2023-02-05T06:50:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T12:50:46","slug":"3272","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2023\/02\/3272\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Winter Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For five continuous days last week, the temperature was in the 20s, ice and snow was on the ground, roads and trees were covered, and we lived a very non-Texas-like lifestyle, even with \u201cthunder sleet\u201d and frozen fog. I know it\u2019s colder in Canada and the northern U.S. states, but this is a bit unusual for Fort Worth, Texas \u2013 unable to drive out of the driveway, sliding on our you-know-what while checking the mailbox, getting nothing but 24\/7 weather reports on every local TV station. \u00a0\u00a0In keeping with my recent \u201cfavorite quotes\u201d submissions, I thought I would recognize our short, but interesting, Texas winter.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?&#8221; Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;One kind word can warm three winter months.&#8221; Japanese Proverb<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful. And since we\u2019ve no place to go, Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!&#8221; Sammy Cahn<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe temperature went from 90 to 55 like it saw a Texas State Trooper.\u201d\u00a0 El Arroyo Restaurant, Austin<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPeople ask me what I do in winter when there&#8217;s no baseball. I&#8217;ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.\u201d Rogers Hornsby<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEverything is bigger in Texas, except the Snowman.\u201d Unknown<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTexas has two seasons: summer and winter. Usually, they alternate days within the same week.\u201d Unknown<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.&#8221;\u00a0 Unknown<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThough your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.\u201d Isaiah 1:18<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHave you entered\u00a0the treasury of snow,or have you seen the treasury of hail?\u201d Job 38:22<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For five continuous days last week, the temperature was in the 20s, ice and snow was on the ground, roads and trees were covered, and we lived a very non-Texas-like lifestyle, even with \u201cthunder sleet\u201d and frozen fog. I know it\u2019s colder in Canada and the northern U.S. states, but this is a bit unusual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}