{"id":7174,"date":"2010-07-07T07:51:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T14:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7174"},"modified":"2010-07-07T07:51:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T14:51:45","slug":"summer-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7174","title":{"rendered":"Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At about five o&#8217;clock, it had cooled off enough that I was willing to go out for a long walk. I walked out of my sister&#8217;s air-conditioned house in Acton, Mass., into the heat. At least it wasn&#8217;t unbearably humid; it was merely mildly humid and oppressively hot. When I got off the main road onto a side street, away from car exhaust fumes, I could smell the warm earth, the roadside plants and weeds, the occasional tang of pollen. I passed a hay field that had just been mowed, with all the cut hay raked into rows so the baler could scoop them up, and the sweet smell of fresh-cut hay overwhelmed all the other smells. Then I got back onto a main road again, and once again the hot summer smells were lost under the exhaust fumes. That evening, Dad said his digital thermometer had recorded a high temperature of 99.9 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At about five o&#8217;clock, it had cooled off enough that I was willing to go out for a long walk. I walked out of my sister&#8217;s air-conditioned house in Acton, Mass., into the heat. At least it wasn&#8217;t unbearably humid; it was merely mildly humid and oppressively hot. When I got off the main road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concord-mass","category-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174","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=7174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7175,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions\/7175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}