{"id":573884830,"date":"2013-05-04T21:26:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T02:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884830"},"modified":"2013-05-09T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T22:47:59","slug":"we-havent-bested-72-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/05\/04\/we-havent-bested-72-in-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"We haven&#8217;t bested 72 in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;ll complain about the weather this much: &#8220;<a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alabamawx.com\/?p=71347\">Tomorrow morning temperatures will drop into the 38-42 degree range.<\/a>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Checking my elaborately Photoshopped gag gift calendar &#8230; yes, I see that this is May. <\/p>\n<p>In Albany, NY, where Maine is playing baseball today, it is sunny and 75. We haven&#8217;t seen 75 in a week. It is 57 right now. The high temperatures for Auburn on this day in this century: 80, 78, 82, 69, 71, 84, 82, 79, 77, 84, 70, 84 and 60. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen snow in the Deep South in April. But I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve never huddled under a blanket in May. This is a strange season.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it is rainy. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may13\/may01.jpg\" alt=\"Yankee\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The baseball game was delayed from the afternoon until the evening. So that meant even cooler still. Which wouldn&#8217;t have been so bad itself, but for the continual drizzle and threat of rain. And, also, it is May. <\/p>\n<p>By the end of the night you could see your breath in the air. <\/p>\n<p>But it was a quality <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auburntigers.com\/sports\/m-basebl\/spec-rel\/050413aab.html\">baseball game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"720\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MdQ5GiXtB9A?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MdQ5GiXtB9A?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The coach called it magical dust in one interview and said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wareagleextra.com\/2013\/05\/04\/bottoms-up-back-half-of-auburn-order-powers-8-5-comeback-victory-over-ole-miss\/\">in another<\/a> \u201cI don\u2019t know what works and what doesn\u2019t work \u2013 just try to put guys in different spots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whatever gets you into postseason play. <\/p>\n<p>Today the high was 61. Tomorrow will be about the same, overcast, unseasonably cool and curiously devoid of any hints of spring. Mostly I just miss my friend, the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;ll complain about the weather this much: &#8220;Tomorrow morning temperatures will drop into the 38-42 degree range.&#8221; Checking my elaborately Photoshopped gag gift calendar &#8230; yes, I see that this is May. In Albany, NY, where Maine is playing baseball today, it is sunny and 75. We haven&#8217;t seen 75 in a week. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,42,6,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-baseball","category-memories","category-photo","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884831,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884830\/revisions\/573884831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}