{"id":20311,"date":"2021-06-06T13:27:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20311"},"modified":"2021-06-06T14:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T18:43:35","slug":"summer-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20311","title":{"rendered":"Summer Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are times when describing the weather as &#8220;baking&#8221; is not hyperbole. It&#8217;s 98 outside right now, says our outdoor thermometer (edit: it&#8217;s actually 99.5&#8211;the temperature went up while I was writing). You can feel the heat blaring off the roads and rocks. I&#8217;m half tempted to crack an egg on a rock to see if it would cook, if only because I&#8217;ve never tried that experiment before. I&#8217;m glad that the sun is back, and it felt good to be outside for a few minutes, but I couldn&#8217;t tolerate the heat for long. While I was out, I saw a big green dragonfly and some scorched plants, which together with the high temperature made it seem positively July-ish. I don&#8217;t care what the calendar says. It&#8217;s summer <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. As of 2:15 p.m., the temperature is over 104. Our thermometer might be exaggerating slightly (if it&#8217;s catching sun), but the temperature is decidedly not June-ish, and I am not loving it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when describing the weather as &#8220;baking&#8221; is not hyperbole. It&#8217;s 98 outside right now, says our outdoor thermometer (edit: it&#8217;s actually 99.5&#8211;the temperature went up while I was writing). You can feel the heat blaring off the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20311\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20311"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20317,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20311\/revisions\/20317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}