{"id":149,"date":"2007-10-12T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T09:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/?p=149"},"modified":"2012-03-19T12:16:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T09:16:27","slug":"first-snow-day-in-helsinki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"First snow day in Helsinki &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; this autumn. But if you ask people here, this wasn&#8217;t snow (lumi -> &#8220;Ei sataa <em>lunta<\/em>&#8220;). It was r\u00c3\u00a4nt\u00c3\u00a4 (&#8220;sleet&#8221;, in the UK and Commonwealth countries, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sleet\">but not in the US<\/a>). Finns are quite precise about the snow, since they have experienced it more than many other countries (yes, it&#8217;s an understatement). This one is a good example. &#8220;R\u00c3\u00a4nt\u00c3\u00a4&#8221; is very common, while &#8220;sleet&#8221; isn&#8217;t employed but by few people only. Additionally, Finns talk about another 20 different kind of snow, some having more than one name. You can get a list <a href=\"http:\/\/fi.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lumi\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nOf course not all of them are used on a daily basis, but a good half of them are. Then Finns probably heard about another quarter of them in songs and literature. The rest probably depends which area you live in.<br \/>\nDamn, I&#8217;m gonna have to learn 2 or 3 at least !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; this autumn. But if you ask people here, this wasn&#8217;t snow (lumi -> &#8220;Ei sataa lunta&#8220;). It was r\u00c3\u00a4nt\u00c3\u00a4 (&#8220;sleet&#8221;, in the UK and Commonwealth countries, but not in the US). Finns are quite precise about the snow, since they have experienced it more than many other countries (yes, it&#8217;s an understatement). This one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[20],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/poMUP-2p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}