{"id":2587,"date":"1997-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/06\/09\/weather-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T02:07:09","slug":"weather-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/06\/09\/weather-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"w: They Call the Wind Maria (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A reader who prefers to remain anonymous tells me that \"sastruga\" comes from the Russian word \"zastruga,\" meaning \"groove.\" (I have <em>got<\/em> to get a decent dictionary; I oughtn't to have to ask readers about etymologies.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Treesong confirms that the source of \"sastruga\" is Russian and adds that the plural is \"zastrugi,\" which sounds to me like an entr\u00e9e but I guess nobody asked my opinion.\r\n<\/p><p>Christine Perkins, a reference librarian, writes that \"a patron ... asked ... if there is actually a wind called Maria. (She saw <cite>Paint Your Wagon<\/cite> and was curious.)\" I have no idea why the song uses that phrase, and no idea whether there really was a wind called Maria; the librarians have checked lots of sources to no avail. Any readers with ideas, please let me know.<\/p>\r\n<p>Over the years, this has been one of the most commented-on columns; lots of people link to and send comments and questions. I usually can't answer the questions; I'm not an expert on wind or weather, I just like the words. But you may be able to find useful information on the Golden Gate Weather Services <a href=\"http:\/\/ggweather.com\/winds.html\">Names of Winds<\/a> page, incorporating some info from my column and lots of info from other sources.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 9 February 2004)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/06\/08\/weather\/\">Back to column w<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-lowercase-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}