{"id":11825,"date":"2013-10-05T15:26:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/weather-forecasters-working-during-shutdown-issue-secret-plea-to-please-pay-us\/"},"modified":"2013-10-05T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T21:43:27","slug":"weather-forecasters-working-during-shutdown-issue-secret-plea-to-please-pay-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/weather-forecasters-working-during-shutdown-issue-secret-plea-to-please-pay-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather forecasters working during shutdown issue secret plea to \u2018PLEASE PAY US\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Weather Service forecasters in Alaska hid a very timely message to President Barack Obama and Congress about the government shutdown in their Friday forecast discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The 5:00 a.m. forecast discussion from the Anchorage, Alaska office of the National Weather Service looked innocuous enough. It contained the usual meteorological information about the coming day\u2019s weather.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/weather-forecasters-working-during-shutdown-issue-secret-plea-to-please-pay-us\" target=\"_blank\">However, hidden in the discussion was a special message. Find out more on Examiner.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"National Weather Service forecasters in Anchorage, Alaska had a hidden message for President Obama and Congress.\" alt=\"National Weather Service forecasters in Anchorage, Alaska had a hidden message for President Obama and Congress.\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn2-b.examiner.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/mobile_rss\/hash\/7a\/52\/7a52734f88059a99278c6d5b1376f6b4.jpg?itok=5lP6wL_m\" width=\"320\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Weather Service forecasters in Alaska hid a very timely message to President Barack Obama and Congress about the government shutdown in their Friday forecast discussion. The 5:00 a.m. forecast discussion from the Anchorage, Alaska office of the National Weather Service looked innocuous enough. It contained the usual meteorological information about the coming day\u2019s weather. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/examiner-com\/weather-forecasters-working-during-shutdown-issue-secret-plea-to-please-pay-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weather forecasters working during shutdown issue secret plea to \u2018PLEASE PAY US\u2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11827,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions\/11827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}