{"id":849,"date":"2003-08-26T20:51:59","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T00:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/26\/what-a-crappy-summer\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T13:41:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T17:41:23","slug":"what-a-crappy-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/26\/what-a-crappy-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"What a crappy summer."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>It only hit me this morning that we only have a few more days until labor day.  which sucks entirely too much.  This is quite possibly the worst summer I&#8217;ve experienced here in New York.  First, it rained nonstop until some time in July, and then it proceeded to go immediately to 97 degrees and 90% humidity every single day, and the only thing to break up that monotony was more rain.<\/p>\n<p>I swear, if they ever declare a drought emergency again i&#8217;m just not going to believe them.  Normally I spend a good number of Saturday afternoons sitting in the park by my house.  This summer, I spent one (one!).  and it wasn&#8217;t even summer yet &#8211; it was the weekend before Easter.<\/p>\n<p>My friend, however, is extremely blessed &#8211; she got married on Saturday, during a weekend that has been described by some in the news media as the best August weekend since they&#8217;ve been keeping track of those sorts of things.  80 degrees.  no humidity to speak of.  not a cloud in the sky.  I&#8217;m taking it as a karmic sign about their relationship.  and god knows I was damn happy for those to be the circumstances under which I spent 12 hours standing around in heels and a black floor-length evening gown posing for photographs.  outside.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday I did manage to wake up and make it to Stamford for sailing (not stanford as I posted earlier &#8211; that would have been a much longer trip!). I spend the day with my friend C, her husband, her parents, and her almost 1-year old son.  It was really a great day, only marred by the fact that I was so tired that I did have to take an hour-long nap below deck on the way back.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Howard Dean is going to be in town this Thursday.  I would love to attend, but I have to meet my trainer at 9 p.m. combined with the fact that the MTV Music awards are going to be going on about 20 feet from my office, I&#8217;m imagining all sorts of difficulties with being in one place, much less two places at the same time.  Oh well.  he&#8217;s ubiquitous enough at this point that I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be in town again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only hit me this morning that we only have a few more days until labor day. which sucks entirely too much. This is quite possibly the worst summer I&#8217;ve experienced here in New York. First, it rained nonstop until some time in July, and then it proceeded to go immediately to 97 degrees and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[34,24],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-friends","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-dH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}