…well it was half an hour ago at least! At last, we’ve had some snow this year and some pretty good stuff at that. Durham now has a nice couple of inches covering it with hopefully more tonight or tomorrow. I took the opportunity to take a few pictures and although none are brilliant, I did get a few worth posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…well it was half an hour ago at least! At last, we’ve had some snow this year and some pretty good stuff at that. Durham now has a nice couple of inches covering it with hopefully more tonight or tomorrow. I took the opportunity to take a few pictures and although none are brilliant, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university","tag-snow"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0121.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":246,"url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/black-white\/","url_meta":{"origin":26,"position":0},"title":"Black & White","author":"David","date":"21st February 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"We got some more pretty extreme snow last night, making my walk to lectures this morning a lot more interesting! 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