{"id":351,"date":"2010-01-21T16:13:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2010-01-21T16:13:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:13:49","slug":"a-detour-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/a-detour-in-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"A Detour in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Apparently Phoenix doesn&#8217;t get a lot of rain.  That&#8217;s what the locals say.  They&#8217;re supposed to get 5 inches this week &#8211; about as much as they got all of last year!  Impressive statistic, but I&#8217;m from Vancouver, Canada.  These grey skies and blustery winds are not so unusual!  And it&#8217;s warm too.<br \/>\n  Unfortunately they did have to close the airport, so I&#8217;ll be spending an unexpected day in friendly Phoenix!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more Continue Reading This Post--><br \/>\n  The WUC meeting in Tucson was a great success, by the way.  I met a lot of great characters, and the presentation on Tube-Lube was very well received &#8211; I&#8217;ll thank my audience for being so receptive!<br \/>\n  We enjoyed a demonstration of Tucson Electric&#8217;s Boomer-Dawg winch and had a look at San Diego Gas &#038; Electric&#8217;s cable pulling trailer under clear afternoon skies.  I&#8217;m glad they were able to bring it out to Tucson.  The evening &#8220;table talk&#8221; with Pacific Utilities went well, too!<br \/>\n  Hopefully, the storm will blow through tonight and I&#8217;ll be on my way home tomorrow.  See you next week!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/images\/dr-jon-hedgehog.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Jon the Blogging Hedgehog\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Phoenix doesn&#8217;t get a lot of rain. That&#8217;s what the locals say. They&#8217;re supposed to get 5 inches this week &#8211; about as much as they got all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}