{"id":8716,"date":"2019-09-05T05:08:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2019-08-29T18:01:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T23:01:43","slug":"blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 2018<\/p>\n<p>It was said that the first blizzard of the winter was going to hit the Twin Cities &#8211; although if U looked outside, it didn&#8217;t appear this was the case.<\/p>\n<p>So when McKinlee asked Lisa and I if we could go to DQ, we said sure.\u00a0 To our surprise, as we pulled into DQ, it seemed we were not the only ones with this idea.\u00a0 There were about 6 cars in front of us in the drive-thru.<\/p>\n<p>As we sat in line, we noticed a few flakes &#8211; minutes later, the snow was getting heavier and heavier.<\/p>\n<p>It was now our turn to place an order, McKinlee decided she wanted to try a blizzard for the first time &#8211; M&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>As we waited in line to pay for our order, the snow was falling so hard, it looked as if we were trapped in a snow globe.\u00a0 Snow was flying everywhere, we barely could see the car in front of us, more less the drive-up window 20 feet away.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home it was clear the blizzard had arrived in full force.\u00a0 Even with all wheel drive, it took us a lot\u00a0 longer to get home.\u00a0 Right before we did,\u00a0 McKinlee announced, she finished her blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;how was eating your very first blizzard in a blizzard?&#8221;\u00a0 McKinlee laughed and said, &#8220;so good&#8221; and within the same breath she said, &#8220;Mark look&#8221;, pointing at her napkin around her cup, &#8220;a heart!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For safety reasons, obviously we waited till we were back home before we took this pic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 2018 It was said that the first blizzard of the winter was going to hit the Twin Cities &#8211; although if U looked outside, it didn&#8217;t appear this was the case. So when McKinlee asked Lisa and I if we could go to DQ, we said sure.\u00a0 To our surprise, as we pulled into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2940,942,2769,1478,2080,2393],"class_list":["post-8716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-hearts","tag-blizard","tag-heart","tag-mckinlee","tag-napkin","tag-storm","tag-winter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seeinghearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/McKinlee_blizardinBlizard-12_2_18.jpg?fit=2772%2C3032&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8716"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8722,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8716\/revisions\/8722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/7980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}