{"id":7101,"date":"2010-06-20T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2010-06-20T15:03:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T22:03:17","slug":"new-orleans-trip-two-last-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7101","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans trip: two last thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(1) A comparison of New Orleans weather with Bay area weather: When we walked into the terminal at the New Orleans at about seven this morning, it was already hot and humid, 80 degrees with a dew point of 74; when we arrived at San Francisco airport, it was cool, almost chilly, and dry, at 63 degrees and a 29 mile per hour wind, with a dew point of 48. Given the weather we&#8217;re accustomed to, no wonder we had problems with the heat this past week.<\/p>\n<p>(2) You know it&#8217;s a good trip when the final leg of your flight is delayed two hours, but you don&#8217;t really mind because you so enjoy the company of the people with whom you&#8217;re traveling.<\/p>\n<p><em>And one last bonus thought: While in New Orleans, I read the <\/em>New Orleans Times Picayune<em> every day, and they have absolutely the best coverage on the BP oil spill, combining repressed righteous anger with good solid reporting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/gulf-oil-spill\/\">Read their oil spill coverage online at NOLA.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1) A comparison of New Orleans weather with Bay area weather: When we walked into the terminal at the New Orleans at about seven this morning, it was already hot and humid, 80 degrees with a dew point of 74; when we arrived at San Francisco airport, it was cool, almost chilly, and dry, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[523],"class_list":["post-7101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sauntering","category-youth-ministry","tag-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101","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=7101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7103,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7101\/revisions\/7103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}