{"id":1473,"date":"2008-03-10T07:47:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/03\/10\/buffalo-news-paucity-of-pussy-willows-may-dry-up-dyngus-fun\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T07:49:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T11:49:28","slug":"buffalo-news-paucity-of-pussy-willows-may-dry-up-dyngus-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/03\/buffalo-news-paucity-of-pussy-willows-may-dry-up-dyngus-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo News: Paucity of pussy willows may dry up Dyngus fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"6\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.leasetrader.com\/press\/images\/logos\/buffalonews.gif?w=640\" hspace=\"6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A winter-related shortage of pussy willows may take the sweet sting out of this year\u2019s Dyngus Day fun.<\/p>\n<p>Icy, snowy weather over the last month has delayed the budding process, meaning that there probably won\u2019t be enough locally grown switches for the flirting ritual that highlights the traditional Polish celebration.<\/p>\n<p>You know, the one where girls swat boys with pussy willows to win them over, and boys respond by dousing them with water.<\/p>\n<p>Without the willowy whips \u201cthere might not be as many romantic outcomes,\u201d fretted Marty Biniasz, founder of Dyngus Day Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>[<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/home\/story\/295557.html\">read full story in Buffalo News<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A winter-related shortage of pussy willows may take the sweet sting out of this year\u2019s Dyngus Day fun. Icy, snowy weather over the last month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-bf-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-nL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}