{"id":130603,"date":"2016-05-06T15:22:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/06\/greetings-from-the-mystery-belt.html"},"modified":"2016-05-06T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T21:22:18","slug":"greetings-from-the-mystery-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/06\/greetings-from-the-mystery-belt.html","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from the Mystery Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because here in Denver we&#39;re really outside of Tornado Alley, our snowy weather comes and goes quickly, and we are rarely on fire for any length of time. <\/p>\n<p>(All that said, I can take anything but Hot Soup. Give me Murder Mountains any day.)<\/p>\n<p>But I may have said too much &#8212; there are, in fact, <i>horrifying things<\/i> here in the Mystery Belt. Things people were not meant to know, things you <i>don&#39;t want to discover<\/i> if you don&#39;t currently live here. Stay where you are &#8230; do not brave (let alone <i>move to)<\/i> the Mystery Belt &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[h\/t fellow Belter <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105138568577624786912\" oid=\"105138568577624786912\">Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/span>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6281689197052118177\/6281689192905436562'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-QMC6asb4mrQ\/Vy0LCgSJ7ZI\/AAAAAAAD40c\/gkoyBBGbE4AOJes8xGWYtc6HmGesODmIA\/America%2Bthe%2BBeautiful.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JisPZsYKf3X'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because here in Denver we&#39;re really outside of Tornado Alley, our snowy weather comes and goes quickly, and we are rarely on fire for any length of time. (All that said, I can take anything but Hot Soup. Give me Murder Mountains any day.) But I may have said too much &#8212; there are, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/06\/greetings-from-the-mystery-belt.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greetings from the Mystery Belt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/America+the+Beautiful.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28087,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/belt-tightening-is-a-bad-metaphor.html","url_meta":{"origin":130603,"position":0},"title":"Belt-tightening is a bad metaphor","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 3-Jun-12 10:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"The problem with the \"family tightening their belt\" metaphor for austerity measures in a bad economy is that a family has limited to no ability to increase its income-earning\u00a0when times are tight. 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