{"id":573881824,"date":"2011-07-19T19:24:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573881824"},"modified":"2011-07-24T10:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:08:37","slug":"hiding-from-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/hiding-from-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding from heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july11\/july18.jpg\" alt=\u201dAthens\u201d><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Acropolis, in Athens, Greece, as seen on our refrigerator. Wouldn\u2019t you rather be in Athens today?<\/p>\n<p>Well, no. The heat index here was about <a TARGET=\u201d_blank\u201d href=http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/history\/airport\/KAUO\/2011\/7\/19\/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&#038;req_state=NA&#038;req_statename=NA>99<\/a> today. It snuck up to around <a TARGET=\u201d_blank\u201d href=http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/history\/airport\/LGAV\/2011\/7\/19\/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&#038;req_state=NA&#038;req_statename=NA>107 there<\/a>. Winner, the fridge, where everything is about 34 degrees. <\/p>\n<p>From mid-July through September everything is weighted along a linear graph of atmospheric heat and thermal conductivity. At any place where those two lines meet on the chart, you want to minimize your exposure because, really. <\/p>\n<p>I like a good summer. The Yankee finds this a bit odd. But there\u2019s nothing wrong with a good dose of heat. There\u2019s something magical about stomping through a bit of humidity. We get plenty of each. But as I get a little older, I\u2019m changing my opinion just a bit. Two years ago, in a September filled with the mid and upper 90s, I\u2019d just had enough. And we still had a warm October to look forward to as well. <\/p>\n<p>So heat is good. Limited doses should be applied. Late May through August, I can deal with that. September should demonstrate a little flexibility. <\/p>\n<p>And comparing the seasonal averages, I might not runaway to Greece to avoid the heat.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the map, then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Acropolis, in Athens, Greece, as seen on our refrigerator. Wouldn\u2019t you rather be in Athens today? Well, no. The heat index here was about 99 today. It snuck up to around 107 there. Winner, the fridge, where everything is about 34 degrees. From mid-July through September everything is weighted along a linear graph of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573881824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573881824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573881830,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881824\/revisions\/573881830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573881824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573881824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573881824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}