{"id":21387,"date":"2016-01-27T22:44:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T03:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=21387"},"modified":"2016-01-27T22:44:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T03:44:26","slug":"so-this-is-what-its-like-to-go-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/27\/so-this-is-what-its-like-to-go-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"So this is what it&#8217;s like to go viral &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 42&#8243; snowfall here in Glengary, West Virginia was so remarkable that not only did I appear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2016\/01\/25\/how-deep-was-the-snow-in-glengary-west-virginia-so-deep-the-bbc-interviewed-me-about-it\/\">live on the BBC<\/a> to let folks on the other side of pond know how bad things had gotten, but a photo of me lounging on a bench out back in the midst of the blizzard was featured within the first minute of Monday night&#8217;s <em>CBS Evening News<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>When I learned the image would be used, I warned friends not to blink if they wanted to catch me. But as it turned out, I was on screen long enough that blinking was permissible.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uCSrCM9dWXI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you hung in for the entire broadcast, you&#8217;d have spotted my credit during the final moments&#8212;above the credit to the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Zoo for its panda footage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ScottEdelmanCreditCBSNews.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ScottEdelmanCreditCBSNews-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"ScottEdelmanCreditCBSNews\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ScottEdelmanCreditCBSNews-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ScottEdelmanCreditCBSNews-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ScottEdelmanCreditCBSNews-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/ScottEdelmanCreditCBSNews.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know, I know &#8230; it was purely an alphabetical decision.  But let me live the dream for a little longer that I&#8217;m more important than a panda, OK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 42&#8243; snowfall here in Glengary, West Virginia was so remarkable that not only did I appear live on the BBC to let folks on the other side of pond know how bad things had gotten, but a photo of me lounging on a bench out back in the midst of the blizzard was featured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21395,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21387\/revisions\/21395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}