{"id":582,"date":"2011-05-05T23:47:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T06:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=582"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:22:13","slug":"the-joys-of-a-san-francisco-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/05\/the-joys-of-a-san-francisco-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The joys of a San Francisco summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Summer is upon us in the Bay area, and it is time to reflect again on Mark Twain&#8217;s description of Bay area summers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-385b5d7a29e6f585010130a9c4e19bfe\">&#8220;Along in the summer, when you have suffered about four months of lustrous, pitiless sunshine, you are ready to go down on your knees and plead for rain &#8212; hail &#8212; snow &#8212; thunder and lightning &#8212; anything to break the monotony &#8212; you will take an earthquake, if you cannot do any better. And the chances are that you&#8217;ll get it, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is upon us in the Bay area, and it is time to reflect again on Mark Twain&#8217;s description of Bay area summers: &#8220;Along in the summer, when you have suffered about four months of lustrous, pitiless sunshine, you are ready to go down on your knees and plead for rain &#8212; hail &#8212; snow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/05\/the-joys-of-a-san-francisco-summer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The joys of a San Francisco summer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[1191,290,38],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","category-summer-dry-season","tag-commonplace-book","tag-mark-twain","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12908,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/12908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}