{"id":10700,"date":"2006-08-03T16:35:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T21:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/03\/so-long-temperatures-of-doom\/"},"modified":"2006-08-04T21:13:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T02:13:36","slug":"so-long-temperatures-of-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/03\/so-long-temperatures-of-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"So long temperatures of doom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The back of a heat wave that morphed the Tri-State area into a free-for-all sauna over the last three days breaks at 8pm. And I am counting the seconds. I&#8217;d crack its spine with a sledgehammer myself, were this maneuver possible.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last several years, mild summers and the remnants of youth lulled me to believe that I might commute without proper air conditioning. The car A\/C worked for the first 4 seasons, then went on strike last year. Really, not much of a problem, because temperate days were so rare. Surely good weather lasts forever. And so I balked at paying for a repair job. Chalk up another error of not listening to the Wife.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Planet Pain.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the best of the hot snap; it only felt like 103 degrees. Which brings me to the only trait I share with the late Hunter S. Thompson: neither of us can express ourselves in oppressive climates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The back of a heat wave that morphed the Tri-State area into a free-for-all sauna over the last three days breaks at 8pm. And I am counting the seconds. I&#8217;d crack its spine with a sledgehammer myself, were this maneuver possible. Over the last several years, mild summers and the remnants of youth lulled me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}