{"id":1478,"date":"2009-07-21T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2009-07-21T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T13:27:23","slug":"rain-rain-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/rain-rain-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, Rain: Go Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s raining. Again. This is hardly news at this point. It&#8217;s pretty much rained all summer long. I ran out of different ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/beerandpie\">tweet<\/a> the fact that it is raining a long, long time ago. And, yet, I continue to talk about it. Why? Because I have a biological predisposition to talk about the weather. I come by it naturally, it&#8217;s the favorite topic of conversation at most family gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that talking about politics ends up in a WWE-style royal rumble. Nobody wants to see my Dad get Grandma in a headlock again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kidding about the headlock.<\/p>\n<p>At least as far as you know.<\/p>\n<p>Most people around here can&#8217;t shut up about the weather. It&#8217;s cloying. It&#8217;s depressing. It&#8217;s starting to feel like we&#8217;re never going to get more than two days in a row of sun. Ever again. This has been the shortest summer ever and that&#8217;s mostly because <em>this isn&#8217;t summer<\/em>. Summer involves watermelon, not endless rain. Summer involves ice cream and not hot cocoa. <em>Summer means never having to wear a sweater in the daylight hours<\/em>. Summer means having enough days without rain that I can actually paint our stupid deck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At this rate, our deck should be painted by October. By then, it&#8217;ll probably be winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s raining. Again. This is hardly news at this point. It&#8217;s pretty much rained all summer long. I ran out of different ways to tweet the fact that it is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-nQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}