{"id":3450,"date":"2012-06-14T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T07:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/haiku-haboob\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T00:45:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T07:45:20","slug":"haiku-haboob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/14\/haiku-haboob\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku Haboob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/allheadlines\/ci_20855573\/ariz-asks-haikus-promote-dust-storm-safety\" target=\"_blank\">from AP via Pioneer Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Arizona asks for haikus to promote dust storm safety<\/h1>\n<p><em>The Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grabatee.net\/2011\/08\/02\/haboob-shirts\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Giant Haboobs by Haboob found at Grab A Tee Shirt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rlv.zcache.com\/giant_haboobs_tshirt-p235699147492622376a5q5q_325.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px\" border=\"0\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> PHOENIX\u2014Arizona transportation officials are getting the message out about dust storm safety\u2014in precisely 17 syllables.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona Department of Transportation is encouraging Twitter users to tweet haikus around the theme safe driving in haboobs\u2014severe dust storms that hit Phoenix in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>An example, from Phoenix resident Mindy Lee, who goes by the Twitter handle mindyblee: &#8220;Haboobs blow through town \/ In one instant it is dark \/ Pull over and wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The haiku challenge runs through Friday. Tweeters are asked to include the hashtag (hash)HaboobHaiku.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/allheadlines\/ci_20855573\/ariz-asks-haikus-promote-dust-storm-safety\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at TwinCities.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP via Pioneer Press Arizona asks for haikus to promote dust storm safety The Associated Press PHOENIX\u2014Arizona transportation officials are getting the message out about dust storm safety\u2014in precisely 17 syllables. The Arizona Department of Transportation is encouraging Twitter users to tweet haikus around the theme safe driving in haboobs\u2014severe dust storms that hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}