{"id":5080,"date":"2019-02-22T17:56:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/?p=5080"},"modified":"2019-02-22T20:57:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T20:57:05","slug":"midwinter-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/midwinter-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"MIDWINTER BLUES?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know we&#8217;re all counting the days till spring.\u00a0 \u00a0 But if you can&#8217;t shake the cold in your bones you might as well celebrate it.\u00a0 \u00a0That&#8217;s why Sag Harbor&#8217;s annual &#8220;Harbor Frost&#8221; is a welcome event during these cold weather doldrums.\u00a0 \u00a0 Some of the events include a culinary stroll, art exhibits, live music, fireworks and of course the annual &#8220;Frosty Plunge.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0This is not to be confused with a &#8220;polar bear plunge&#8221; which happened earlier this year.\u00a0 One involves sun starved adults and teens jumping into frigid waters for two seconds so they can take selfies and tell their friends.\u00a0 \u00a0The other involves sun starved adults and teens jumping into frigid waters for two seconds so they can take selfies and tell their friends.\u00a0 If you want more details on Harbor Frost <a href=\"https:\/\/sagharborchamber.com\/events\/harborfrost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0 If your curious about how much Hampton folk love their cold water plunges, take a look at the video below from the East Hampton New Year&#8217;s Polar Plunge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/318827152\" width=\"640\" height=\"1138\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re like me &#8230; winter is the perfect time for binge watching and seeing all the movies you never had a chance to catch at the theatre.\u00a0 \u00a0But if you&#8217;ve been suckered <em>like me<\/em> into upgrading<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-5082 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1138.jpg?resize=376%2C282\" alt=\"IMG_1138\" width=\"376\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1138.jpg?w=4032&amp;ssl=1 4032w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1138.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1138.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1138.jpg?w=3600&amp;ssl=1 3600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/>to the new &#8220;Altice&#8221; cable system, you&#8217;ve been cursing and screaming more than binging and drooling.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The new &#8220;higher tech&#8221; system that was formerly known as Optimum sounds great.\u00a0 \u00a0Each box is a router which you can pause and rewind shows.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also more storage on the DVR that actually can be controlled with voice recognition.\u00a0 It all sounds great!\u00a0 If it works!\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t.\u00a0 \u00a0The boxes are constantly frozen, the DVR rarely works and the whole &#8220;router&#8221; thing is a complete joke!\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s a complete flop but I&#8217;m tempted to go to one cable box and do the rest via Amazon Firestick or Google Chrome.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The ironic thing is I also had a chance to chat with a few of their own employees on the street and even they said the new system is filled with bugs.<\/p>\n<p>So, the moral of today&#8217;s blog is go outside, get off your sofa and be social!\u00a0 \u00a0Besides, yourTV doesn&#8217;t work anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know we&#8217;re all counting the days till spring.\u00a0 \u00a0 But if you can&#8217;t shake the cold in your bones you might as well celebrate it.\u00a0 \u00a0That&#8217;s why Sag Harbor&#8217;s annual &#8220;Harbor Frost&#8221; is a welcome event during these cold weather doldrums.\u00a0 \u00a0 Some of the events include a culinary stroll, art exhibits, live music, &#8230; <a title=\"MIDWINTER BLUES?!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/midwinter-blues\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MIDWINTER BLUES?!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","generate_page_header":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[2793,2816,2817,2819,2818,1358,2361,2815,1350,1381,2814,1923],"class_list":["post-5080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activities","tag-altice","tag-awful","tag-cable","tag-doesnt-work","tag-hamptons","tag-harbor-frost","tag-polar-plunge","tag-real-estate","tag-sag-harbor","tag-schedule","tag-winter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8pfeo-1jW","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_1138.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamptonschatter.net\/chatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}