{"id":4088,"date":"2007-08-10T13:32:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T20:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/08\/10\/flossie\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T15:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T23:30:56","slug":"flossie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/08\/10\/flossie\/","title":{"rendered":"Flossie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5834,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\\\/index.shtml?#FLOSSIE&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303182800\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\\\/index.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 15:20:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 15:20:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5835,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.google.com\\\/news?hl=en&amp;ned=us&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ncl=1119151356&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160602005943\\\/http:\\\/\\\/news.google.com\\\/news?hl=en&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 15:20:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 15:20:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Would everyone on Hawaii please do us a favor? Go outside, face south, and blow as hard as you can.<\/p>\n<p>See, Prairie and I have tickets to fly out of Seattle on Tuesday to be in Hawaii for Prairie&#8217;s sister Hope&#8217;s wedding on Wednesday, then go camping until we come back to Seattle next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/index.shtml?#FLOSSIE\" title=\"National Hurricane Center: Hurricane Flossie\">Hurricane Flossie<\/a> apparently <em>also<\/em> has plans to be Hawaii on Tuesday. Oh, sure, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&amp;ned=us&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ncl=1119151356\" title=\"Google News: Flossie\">news reports<\/a> say that it will &#8220;only&#8221; be a tropical storm by then, but that still could mean 45+ mile per hour winds &#8212; not terribly conducive to either beach weddings or campgrounds. Heck, depending on just when Flossie shows up, there&#8217;s a possibility that our flight in might be cancelled or delayed. At this point, it&#8217;s pretty hard to tell.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8212; if you all wouldn&#8217;t mind, could you all try to blow Flossie a bit further south? We&#8217;d really appreciate it. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would everyone on Hawaii please do us a favor? Go outside, face south, and blow as hard as you can. See, Prairie and I have tickets to fly out of Seattle on Tuesday to go to Hawaii. Unfortunately, Hurricane Flossie apparently _also_ has plans to be Hawaii on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}