{"id":8832,"date":"2009-01-16T17:51:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T22:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8832"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:11:01","slug":"scanning-friday-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8832","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8801\">Jen and Katy<\/a>, my childhood BFFs?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some shots of them (and also Jennifer, Katy&#8217;s little sister &#8211; a kindred spirit of my sister Jean) during the blizzard of &#8217;78 which basically shut down Rhode Island for over a week.  We were out of school for a week solid.  The snow was above the sills of our windows.  It was <i>Little House in the Prairie<\/i>, bigtime.  Nightmare for the parents, I&#8217;m sure, having all these ankle-biters running around &#8230; but a BLAST for us.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3217757951_d52e137c14_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3217757951_d52e137c14_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3217757951_d52e137c14_c-200x157.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3217757951_d52e137c14_c-400x314.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3217757951_d52e137c14_c-100x79.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3217757951_d52e137c14_c-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3218610184_e475880e53_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"625\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3218610184_e475880e53_c.jpg 799w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3218610184_e475880e53_c-200x156.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3218610184_e475880e53_c-400x313.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3218610184_e475880e53_c-100x78.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3218610184_e475880e53_c-768x601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3220527056_4b58925fca_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"630\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3220527056_4b58925fca_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3220527056_4b58925fca_c-200x158.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3220527056_4b58925fca_c-400x315.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3220527056_4b58925fca_c-100x79.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/3220527056_4b58925fca_c-768x605.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member Jen and Katy, my childhood BFFs? Here are some shots of them (and also Jennifer, Katy&#8217;s little sister &#8211; a kindred spirit of my sister Jean) during the blizzard of &#8217;78 which basically shut down Rhode Island for over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8832\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8832"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205738,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions\/205738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}