{"id":646,"date":"2018-02-07T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T10:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wordpress\/?p=646"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:47:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T10:47:58","slug":"an-iowa-winter-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"An Iowa winter in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/saloncurtains-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/saloncurtains-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/saloncurtains-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/saloncurtains-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/saloncurtains-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-648\" src=\"http:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/excellent-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/excellent-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/excellent-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/excellent-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/excellent-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-649\" src=\"http:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chromesalon-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chromesalon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chromesalon-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chromesalon-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/chromesalon-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-650\" src=\"http:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/terrace-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/terrace-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/terrace-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/terrace-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-651\" src=\"http:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bedroom-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bedroom-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bedroom-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bedroom-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-652\" src=\"http:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/home-office-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/home-office-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/home-office-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/home-office-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/home-office-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An Iowa winter in Paris<\/p>\n<p>I have lived in Paris for more than forty years and cannot remember snow sticking on the ground for more than a few hours, let alone a day. But this morning when I entered the living room (photo above with curtains shut), I felt like I was right back in my native state of Iowa where snow covered the trees, the bushes, the ground, the streets under a big white blanket all winter long.<\/p>\n<p>Although Paris is a northern city, it is unequipped for snow so the sidewalks and roads are dangerously slippery and there are 700 kilometres of traffic jams all around the city as drivers struggle to get into the city to work.<\/p>\n<p>We snuggle up in our apartment, looking outside at our yard, knowing that the bakery and the butcher shop, the newsstand and the metro are only a short walk away.<\/p>\n<p>And of course the snow is not the only that&#8217;s falling. \u00a0Waves of nostalgia for real winters fall upon my mind as well. Those Iowa winters! \u00a0Sledding, skating, snowballs outside, warm fires and fresh baked cookies inside. \u00a0 Nostalgia is the keyword here: do I really miss those long winters? Those winters that are so pristine and beautiful the first days and then gradually turn to slush and seem (and are) interminable?<\/p>\n<p>Not really. \u00a0But how I love this special treat of an Iowa winter in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An Iowa winter in Paris I have lived in Paris for more than forty years and cannot remember snow sticking on the ground for more than a few hours, let alone a day. But this morning when I entered the living room (photo above with curtains shut), I felt like I was right back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":783,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}