So about 3 years ago, the Greater DC Metro area received more than an inch of snow. One. Inch. Of snow. And schools throughout Northern Virginia closed for the emergency, for one day.<\/p>\n
Now, with nearly 40 inches of snow, the schools have been closed for the entire week. Should they not – and I put this to you – close for at least the 36 days – one per inch – that they usually do? I’m leaning on this to be a good reason to move to year-round school. In fact, I’m going to start sending mine away to school when the locals won’t have them, just to get them out of my hair for a while. Because I love them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The togetherness is growing on all of us, and it turns out that’s not the only thing growing.\u00a0 Since I haven’t shaved in a week, Number One Son walked up to me and said, “Daddy, you’re starting to look like William Shakespeare.\u00a0 Do you want<\/strong> to look like William Shakespeare?”<\/p>\n “No,” I told him, “I just want to write<\/strong> like William Shakespeare.”\u00a0 This answer seemed to satisfy him, and he wandered off.\u00a0 While sharpening my razor on the strop, I realized the only “William Shakespeare” he’d ever seen was on a Dr. Who episode.\u00a0\u00a0 I could do worse, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Should schools not close for at least one day per inch of snow? And should we not institute year-round school RIGHT NOW?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}