{"id":1290,"date":"2010-03-03T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:24:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T20:24:58","slug":"dueling-icicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/03\/dueling-icicles\/","title":{"rendered":"DUELING ICICLES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>A tenant almost sued<\/strong><\/span> me for icicle damage to her body.\u00a0 A falling icicle grazed her shoulder.\u00a0 She said it was a 25-pound icicle.<\/p>\n<p>She wouldn&#8217;t have won.\u00a0 There is no law stating I control the weather.\u00a0 But she might have endlessly bugged me, so I told her to take some money off her rent.<\/p>\n<p>There is no way to prevent ice buildup unless you put a heating cable in the gutter.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m not going to do that.<\/p>\n<p><em>Icicle<\/em>s: Ice==ik=uhls==.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen six-foot icicles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Icicles are in the<\/strong><\/span> playoff series, nature division, along with cardinals, sycamores and lightning bugs.<\/p>\n<p>At the Webb building on the West Side, the icicles look like Niagara Falls in stop-action. The alleyway in back of the Webb building should be declared a national sanctuary for icicles; it is so frigid and dark back there. \u00a0The alley is a mile from frozen-over Lake Erie and gets no sun because apartment buildings dwarf it on each side.<\/p>\n<p>A college film crew shot a crime\/action movie in the alley.\u00a0 They strewed litter to make it look worse.\u00a0 (They picked the litter up afterward.)\u00a0 They spread rock salt to melt the snow and ice.\u00a0 <em>Use<\/em> the snow, <em>use<\/em> the icicles. Work with it. \u00a0Dueling icicles.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">2 of 2 posts for 3\/3\/10<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tenant almost sued me for icicle damage to her body.\u00a0 A falling icicle grazed her shoulder.\u00a0 She said it was a 25-pound icicle. She wouldn&#8217;t have won.\u00a0 There is no law stating I control the weather.\u00a0 But she might have endlessly bugged me, so I told her to take some money off her rent. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8559,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/8559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}