{"id":5136,"date":"2026-01-23T18:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:28:35","slug":"brownies-and-snowstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=5136","title":{"rendered":"Brownies and Snowstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I am enjoying the view of a blizzard outside my window.\u00a0 \u00a0The snow is coming down in swirling and blinding sheets. The street-lights reveal how fast the snow is coming but somehow there&#8217;s no darkness. And there&#8217;s no sign of it letting up: the snow started in the morning and will go through the night.<\/p>\n<p>All my snow-gear and boots are on a towel in the kitchens drying. Quiet Rustle, my cat and I sit in the dark with some Christmas lights still left up in the windows. I clack away on the laptop. The first big storm of the season is always fun and this one is a big multi-day cozy event.<\/p>\n<p>For sure, I will wake up several times in the night to see how it&#8217;s coming down.<\/p>\n<p>I will then fall asleep and dream of the brownies my wife will bake for my snow-blowing this morning!<\/p>\n<p><em>copyright Christopher Donahue\u00a0 2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I am enjoying the view of a blizzard outside my window.\u00a0 \u00a0The snow is coming down in swirling and blinding sheets. The street-lights reveal how fast the snow is coming but somehow there&#8217;s no darkness. And there&#8217;s no sign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=5136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5141,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}