{"id":859,"date":"2026-03-19T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=859"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:48:18","slug":"breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/03\/19\/breaking-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/groundhog-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/groundhog-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/groundhog-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/groundhog-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/03\/groundhog.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0Virginia officials confirm that Blue Ridge Benny has officially begun his court-ordered community service after what experts are calling \u201ca highly emotional weather betrayal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For a brief, dangerous 72 hours, Virginians were led to believe spring had arrived. The sun showed up. Windows came down. Porches filled up. Hope\u2026 returned.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Then Virginia did what Virginia does.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The fog rolled back over the Blue Ridge Mountains.<br>The rain came sideways.<br>And the temperature dropped like it remembered it had standards.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Authorities say Benny will now spend the week cleaning roadsides near Skyline Drive, picking up everything from crushed cans to broken dreams.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, residents across Virginia are once again checking the forecast like it\u2019s a toxic relationship.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Virginia is for lovers\u2026<br>and apparently, weather-related trust issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. \u00a0Virginia officials confirm that Blue Ridge Benny has officially begun his court-ordered community service after what experts are calling \u201ca highly emotional weather betrayal.\u201d For a brief, dangerous 72 hours, Virginians were led to believe spring had arrived. The sun showed up. Windows came down. Porches filled up. Hope\u2026 returned. Then Virginia did what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}