{"id":298,"date":"2005-08-09T19:07:50","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T00:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2007-11-09T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T16:26:06","slug":"hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and sticky today. Not as hot as the midwest, nor as hot as it gets around here a few miles inland. At a meeting this afternoon, we all talked about the heat. Strategies varied, from cranking up a big old air conditioner, to getting cranky. I don&#8217;t like air conditioning, and prefer to get all mean and cranky. But today was mostly cloudy, the lack of sun made it bearable &#8212; for me, anyway. And I&#8217;m reading Wilfred Thesiger&#8217;s book <em>Arabian Sands<\/em>. He is travelling with five Bedu tribesmen through the Empty Quarter of Saudia Arabia, by camel and on foot. They have no more than a pint of liquid, camel&#8217;s milk mixed with brackish water, a day. The landscape: sand dunes, hundreds of feet high, almost no vegetation. Thesiger writes: <em>There would be no food till sunset, but bin Kabina heated what was left of the coffeee&#8230;. I lay on the sand and watched an eagle circling overhead. It was hot&#8230;. Already the sun had warmed the sand so that it burnt the soft skin round the sides of my feet.<\/em> No shade. Uncertain supplies of water. Whereas in New England, summer is a chance for us to bake our bones in comfort before winter sets in again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and sticky today. Not as hot as the midwest, nor as hot as it gets around here a few miles inland. At a meeting this afternoon, we all talked about the heat. Strategies varied, from cranking up a big old air conditioner, to getting cranky. I don&#8217;t like air conditioning, and prefer to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture","category-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}