{"id":44,"date":"2004-07-14T01:09:46","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T06:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chappells.biz\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-02-06T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T23:27:06","slug":"dog-days-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/dog-days-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Days of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, 97 degrees with a heat index around 107. :tired:<\/p>\n<p>Driving to KC at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning for a client meeting wasn&#8217;t bad at all. Driving home at 4 p.m. <em>was<\/em> bad. The Miata has decent A\/C so it wasn&#8217;t unbearable. But if you spent more&#8217;n a few minutes outside you were soaked with sweat.<\/p>\n<p>Sure was a terrific visit with Stephen and Kathie. I thought it was relaxed and natural. Becky felt the same. Hope our guests shared the &#8220;untensity&#8221;. From what you see in TV and movies, &#8220;meeting the parents&#8221; is a big nerve-wracking deal, but it felt (for the parents, at least) like we&#8217;d already done that a long time ago and this was just a normal visit. I don&#8217;t think anybody got too embarrassed by anything, which is actually pretty outstanding since I can usually do something Becky finds embarrassing regardless of milieu. She&#8217;s my compass but I&#8217;m  subject to influence of solar flares or something like that. :bonk:<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re primed for Kimberly&#8217;s visit. This is shaping up as a memorable summer! :happy:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hot. It&#8217;s humid. It&#8217;s summertime in Kansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","comment-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}