{"id":385,"date":"2005-07-23T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=385"},"modified":"2005-07-23T06:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T11:13:00","slug":"too-dd-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Too D*d Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had days of misery, heat and humidity, and it feels like weeks since it&#8217;s been decent weather for any kind of outdoor activity.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nFortunately, the grass doesn&#8217;t grow very fast in these conditions, so mowing for the last two weeks has been a punt.<br \/>\nAs for the gardens, this is the time for near-constant vigilance.  In heat like this, you almost need to watch container plants by the hour &#8211; this morning, a little box of lobelia and mint looked fine.  By 1:00, it was a shriveled, darkened mess.<br \/>\nYesterday was the opening of the County Fair, in 90 degree heat, but the vendors and volunteers were cheerful in spite of it.<br \/>\nLast night, we had a spectacular display of cloud-to-cloud lightning with almost no thunder and a brief rain shower, and this morning, the air is better, even pleasant, for the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had days of misery, heat and humidity, and it feels like weeks since it&#8217;s been decent weather for any kind of outdoor activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}