{"id":304,"date":"2010-12-08T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2012-12-13T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:47:55","slug":"bored-snowplow-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/08\/bored-snowplow-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Bored snowplow guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.omnux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/wpid-IMAG0737.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok. I know this isn&#8217;t a good picture, but I hope you get the idea.  I was driving into work this morning and, at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Florida Avenue, in Urbana, this site presented itself on the southeast corner of the intersection.<\/p>\n<p>This snow plow was, literally, plowing the snow off of a field of grass.  Not pavement.  Not a parking lot.  Not an improved surface at all.  It was plowing&#8230;  a field&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that there is a good reason for this.  I&#8217;m not sure what that reason might be.  But I&#8217;m confident there&#8217;s a reason.  In the summer they often play soccer in the area south of this, but I&#8217;m not sure what they would be planning for mid December.  <\/p>\n<p>Oh well.  You gotta spend all that extra money that Illinois has on something, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. I know this isn&#8217;t a good picture, but I hope you get the idea. I was driving into work this morning and, at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Florida Avenue, in Urbana, this site presented itself on the southeast corner of the intersection. 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