{"id":6494,"date":"2022-02-28T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T14:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=6494"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:27:56","slug":"editors-letter-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2022\/02\/28\/editors-letter-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greetings folks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I hope you all had a lovely Valentine\u2019s Day, or day after Valentine\u2019s Day (cashing in on all the discounted chocolate). Life has been quiet here in southern Maine, as I\u2019ve been taking this semester remotely from home. I never thought I\u2019d miss poutine more than I do right now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Did anyone else hear that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow in Groundhog Day? That allegedly means that we\u2019re going to have an additional six weeks of winter. What do you think? I hope that the weather starts to warm up. I\u2019ve been going through a lot of wood trying to keep the house warm these past couple weeks. In fact, I had to get four more pallets of wood! Hopefully I won\u2019t go through all of it. Fingers crossed we start to see signs of spring here soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With all that is still going on in the world today, I hope you all are staying safe and healthy. I know a lot of people just want some normalcy back, and I feel that way, too. It\u2019s felt like a long winter and I think a little warmth would do us all some good. Here\u2019s hoping for warmer and sunnier days.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6495\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2021\/03\/03\/editors-letter-12\/img_6831\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6495\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6495\" class=\" wp-image-6495\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2021\/03\/IMG_6831.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/03\/IMG_6831.jpg 770w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/03\/IMG_6831-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2021\/03\/IMG_6831-768x997.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured: Abi Davis, UTimes editor.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Until next time,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Abi Davis<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings folks, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I hope you all had a lovely Valentine\u2019s Day, or day after Valentine\u2019s Day (cashing in on all the discounted chocolate). Life has been quiet here in southern Maine, as I\u2019ve been taking this semester remotely from home. I never thought I\u2019d miss poutine more than I do right now.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Did anyone else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8308,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6494\/revisions\/8308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}