{"id":692,"date":"2010-02-04T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/?p=692"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:07:36","slug":"thursday-poll-too-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/2010\/02\/thursday-poll-too-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Poll: How cold is too cold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had suggestions a couple of times to add a polling feature to the website to see what the buggy fans of the world think about different issues. \u00a0 Thursdays are pretty slow in the buggy news cycle since any drama from the weekend&#8217;s rolls has played out, but the next weekend of rolls is still days away. \u00a0So, from now until raceday, we&#8217;ll post a poll each Thursday. \u00a0Feel free to discuss the poll and suggest interesting future questions in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s poll: \u00a0Temperature. \u00a0It&#8217;s not the juiciest topic ever, but it is pressing. \u00a0Pittsburgh&#8217;s January-best is currently threatening to cancel the second weekend of scheduled rolls this year just by being cold. \u00a0A few years ago, sweepstakes seemed to be cancelling for anything below freezing and there were cries of &#8220;wimps!&#8221; from the alumni who remembered toughing it out in all conditions. \u00a0We had <a href=\"\/news\/2008\/11\/fall-rolls-end-with-anticlimax\/\">some of the debate here last year<\/a>. \u00a0So, what do you think, how cold is too cold for rolls?<\/p>\n<p>Click through to vote in the poll or see the results<!--more--><div id=\"polls-2\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>At what temperature should sweepstakes cancel rolls?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-2-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>Never - If the road is dry, real teams roll <small>(20%, 9 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 20%;\" title=\"Never - If the road is dry, real teams roll (20% | 9 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>25\u00b0 F <small>(18%, 8 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 18%;\" title=\"25\u00b0 F (18% | 8 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>20\u00b0 F - FYI the avg. low temp in pgh is 22 for Jan\/Feb <small>(18%, 8 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 18%;\" title=\"20\u00b0 F - FYI the avg. low temp in pgh is 22 for Jan\/Feb (18% | 8 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>32\u00b0 F - When water freezes, I stay indoors <small>(16%, 7 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 16%;\" title=\"32\u00b0 F - When water freezes, I stay indoors (16% | 7 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>30\u00b0 F <small>(11%, 5 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 11%;\" title=\"30\u00b0 F (11% | 5 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>50\u00b0 F - I only push in shorts <small>(7%, 3 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 7%;\" title=\"50\u00b0 F - I only push in shorts (7% | 3 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>10\u00b0 F <small>(5%, 2 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 5%;\" title=\"10\u00b0 F (5% | 2 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>40\u00b0 F <small>(2%, 1 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 2%;\" title=\"40\u00b0 F (2% | 1 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>15\u00b0 F <small>(2%, 1 Votes)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 2%;\" title=\"15\u00b0 F (2% | 1 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total Voters: <strong>44<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_2_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"2a58a1f8b7\" \/>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had suggestions a couple of times to add a polling feature to the website to see what the buggy fans of the world think about different issues. \u00a0 Thursdays are pretty slow in the buggy news cycle since any drama from the weekend&#8217;s rolls has played out, but the next weekend of rolls is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}