{"id":1415,"date":"2008-02-12T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T16:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/its-a-dry-cold\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T16:33:30","slug":"its-a-dry-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/its-a-dry-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Dry Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080212\/ap_on_re_us\/cold_weather\">From Yahoo News today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It lived up to its name: The temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the &#8220;Icebox of the Nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The previous record low for Feb. 11 in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967, said meteorologist Mike Stewart at the weather service in Duluth.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature also fell to 40 below in Embarrass, 80 miles southeast of International Falls. That&#8217;s just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can tell you that stories like this one do make it difficult to recruit out-of-state salespeople to transfer up here to our customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yahoo News today: It lived up to its name: The temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the &#8220;Icebox of the Nation.&#8221; The previous record low for Feb. 11 in International Falls was 37 below, set in 1967, said meteorologist Mike Stewart at the weather service in Duluth. The temperature also fell to 40 below in Embarrass, 80 miles southeast of International Falls. That&#8217;s just one degree above the all-time record in Minneapolis, 250 miles to the south, that was set in January 1888, the weather service said. I can&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/its-a-dry-cold\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[307,308],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-hiring-salespeople","tag-mn-weather","tag-recruiting-in-mn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-mP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1537,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/relocate-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":1415,"position":0},"title":"Relocate Me","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This post was no joke on April 1. 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