{"id":204,"date":"2013-06-02T00:33:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T00:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=204"},"modified":"2013-07-31T00:25:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T00:25:51","slug":"rain-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Rain here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun came out today, after 7 days of clouds and rain.  As is usual around here now, the wildflower display changes weekly.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t like sitting around indoors, but I was listening to the weather in Oklahoma, appreciating my situation here.  The PNW rarely gets thunderstorms, rainfall, or killer winds like many places in the country.<\/p>\n<p>And I try to avoid places and seasons where such weather drama usually occurs.  But this last year I saw a sample of what people have to tolerate, and I didn&#8217;t like it at all.  Thunderstorms are extremely irritating during the night, frequently threatening, and at times a source of deep concern.  I kept my weather radio on all the time despite it&#8217;s annoying and frequent yelling at times.  And one window on my computer always shows the local Doppler radar picture and I was constantly checking it.  At times I was very uncomfortable, even scared.<\/p>\n<p>So while I might complain about a little bit of drizzle and some gray clouds, I&#8217;m quite relieved I don&#8217;t have to live in constant vigilance of dangerous weather.  Very relieved.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun came out today, after 7 days of clouds and rain. As is usual around here now, the wildflower display changes weekly. I didn&#8217;t like sitting around indoors, but I was listening to the weather in Oklahoma, appreciating my situation here. The PNW rarely gets thunderstorms, rainfall, or killer winds like many places in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}