{"id":59676,"date":"2016-01-20T00:09:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T08:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=59676"},"modified":"2016-01-20T00:09:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T08:09:12","slug":"sitzmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/59676","title":{"rendered":"sitzmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tKids make them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59678\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59678\" class=\"wp-image-59678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/800px-SnowAngel-5644.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Loadmaster (David R. Tribble) via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dogs make them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59680\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59680\" class=\"wp-image-59680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/3022848290_b66aa31f84_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"239\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Martina Rathgens via Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tigers \u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59681\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59681\" class=\"wp-image-59681\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/5524349395_fd114869bb_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"288\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by William Pitcher via Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>and even frogs (?!) make them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59682\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59682\" class=\"wp-image-59682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kermit-70119_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by LoggaWiggler via Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Snow angels, you say?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes, but every angel begins with a \u2026 ?<\/p>\n<p>sitzmark.<\/p>\n<p>Yup, sounds just like it looks.<\/p>\n<p>A sitzmark is a depression made by someone falling backward into the snow. The term stems from the German word <em>sitzen<\/em> (to sit).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m partial to the pretty ones left by birds, like this one:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59683\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59683\" class=\"wp-image-59683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Snow_angel_11585439005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>P.S. Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/45834\"><u>this cute pic<\/u><\/a> of my Meggie making her (sitz)mark last winter?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids make them. Dogs make them. Tigers \u2026 and even frogs (?!) make them. Snow angels, you say? Well, yes, but every angel begins with a \u2026 ? sitzmark. Yup, sounds just like it looks. A sitzmark is a depression &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/59676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/59676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}