{"id":745,"date":"2015-03-05T22:40:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T07:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=745"},"modified":"2015-03-06T02:51:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T11:51:26","slug":"mar-5-when-winter-has-lasted-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"Mar. 5 &#8211; When Winter Has Lasted Too Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Mar. 5 &#8211; When Winter Has Lasted Too Long\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=745\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/snow-children.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-746\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/snow-children.jpg\" alt=\"snow children\" width=\"292\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another day of cancellations due to snow!\u00a0 Many school children love the sound of those words.\u00a0 Adults on the other hand don\u2019t find repeated snow storms all that enjoyable.\u00a0 We had a snow day in our area today.\u00a0 As I encountered people these are some of the problems the snow storm caused that were explained to me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patients were lonely because their loved ones could not come due to the weather and the roads being dangerous to drive on.<\/li>\n<li>Volunteers did not come as scheduled meaning some tasks were not done and meaning that others had to be taken on by others.<\/li>\n<li>Patients with outpatient appointments called to reschedule their appointments to a day when the weather would less of an issue. This left some employees with sections of their day when they were not as busy as they would like to be.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious to me that we are generally ready for winter to end.\u00a0 It is also obvious to me that people are doing the right thing.\u00a0 When they feel at risk by driving in the snow, they change their plans and stay home.\u00a0 Part of being a chaplain is listening to those who have been effected by the snow tell their story and vent their frustration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Another day of cancellations due to snow!\u00a0 Many school children love the sound of those words.\u00a0 Adults on the other hand don\u2019t find repeated snow storms all that enjoyable.\u00a0 We had a snow day in our area today.\u00a0 As I encountered people these are some of the problems the snow storm caused that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mar. 5 &#8211; When Winter Has Lasted Too Long<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}