{"id":64707,"date":"2021-02-11T00:58:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T06:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=64707"},"modified":"2021-02-11T00:58:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T06:58:12","slug":"64707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=64707","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m so old I can remember when they said snow would be a thing of the past.
\nI’m so old I can remember when they said we were entering a new Ice Age.
\nStrangely the solution for both was More Socialism!\u2122 <\/strong><\/em>(cue the meme)
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Eiffel Tower needs blowtorch for ice as snow blankets Europe.<\/a><\/p>\n

PARIS \u2014 Workers at the Eiffel Tower used a blowtorch to melt the ice collecting on its surfaces and snow was blocking roads and halting trains and school buses Wednesday across northern France.<\/p>\n

Amid a European cold snap, areas in Normandy and Brittany unused to such icy conditions were closing highways for lack of snow-clearing equipment. In parts of the Paris region, local authorities halted school buses and urged parents to keep their children at home.<\/p>\n

Snow blanketed the French capital and froze the Eiffel Tower.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen negative temperatures return, my floors get partially covered with ice! To get rid of it, we need to use a blowtorch because ice-control salt is too corrosive for the metal,\u201d tweeted the monument, which has been closed to the public for months because of coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m so old I can remember when they said snow would be a thing of the past. I’m so old I can remember when they said we were entering a new Ice Age. Strangely the solution for both was More Socialism!\u2122 (cue the meme) Eiffel Tower needs blowtorch for ice as snow blankets Europe. PARIS … Continue reading “”<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-econuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64710,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64707\/revisions\/64710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}