{"id":3655,"date":"2026-02-23T20:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:05:58","slug":"mr-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3655","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5533-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5533-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3656\" style=\"width:480px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5533-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5533-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5533-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5533-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5533-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an all-white affair, the blizzard sweeps <br \/>in with style, its blinding white tux,<br \/>bow tie and stiff starched shirt, <br \/>its grandeur, its threats and proclamations,<br \/>its show of power.  In a flick of its<br \/>handsome wrist, it shows us who&#8217;s who.<br \/><br \/>How blankly we stare at its parts,<br \/>its top hat and white entrails,<br \/>wanting, not wanting its magic entourage <br \/>to disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an all-white affair, the blizzard sweeps in with style, its blinding white tux,bow tie and stiff starched shirt, its grandeur, its threats and proclamations,its show of power. In a flick of itshandsome wrist, it shows us who&#8217;s who. How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3655\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1726,544,1727,1728,1730],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blizzard-of-26","tag-noreaster","tag-snowmageddon","tag-white-out","tag-winter-storm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-WX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}