Groundhog Day is coming and this year is unusual.<\/p>\n
First, I have instituted a 1 week vacation tied to Groundhog Day every year and this is the first. Originally, I was planning to go to Florida for the Lantana Lou Groundhog party but that is now defunct. No problem, the Mount Dora Groundhog Day event is good too. Unfortunately, I was hit with a lot of things to do in town along with a bunch of expenses that I wasn’t expecting; plus, after over 10 years of real value to U.S. travel, suddenly virtually everywhere else is a better value than the U.S. Despite this, I expect to be in Florida in April or May, I may make it to Sun and Fun.<\/p>\n
All that said, here are 2 Groundhog Day links that were, of course, wiped out with the rest of the blog in December:<\/p>\n
Mumtaz and I met Star and April in Wiarton last year, they travel to a different Groundhog Day celebration every year and chronicle their adventure here<\/a>.<\/p>\n www.wiartonwillie.com is gone and I really miss it … in addition to real time images of Willie’s burrow at the entrance to Wiarton Willie’s park, it provided a countdown timer to the next Groundhog Day reveal. Click here<\/a> for some results from the last Groundhog Day; updated annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Groundhog Day is coming and this year is unusual. First, I have instituted a 1 week vacation tied to Groundhog Day every year and this is the first. Originally, I was planning to go to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,202,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-groundhog-day","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}