{"id":573897991,"date":"2025-05-21T19:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T23:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897991"},"modified":"2025-05-22T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T00:01:07","slug":"why-is-it-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/05\/21\/why-is-it-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it cold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another meeting. More departmental stuff, this time over appetizers. It was a meeting scheduled for two hours &#8212; so not a retreat, by rule &#8212; that somehow wound up going about three-and-a-half hours.  <\/p>\n<p>And then, of course, there was being chummy with friends and colleagues. The usual sort of thing where you plot to take over the world. It&#8217;s a delightful time with smart people. We&#8217;ve built &#8212; and I guess I get to add myself to this now &#8212; the second largest program on campus. It is also thought to be the largest sports media program in the country. So they&#8217;re smart and talented and we have these common goals and it&#8217;s all quite delightful. <\/p>\n<p>Except for the part where we were standing out in a parking lot chatting and, on May 21st, I could see my breath. That&#8217;s some wild weather. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s another look at the lovely paenoia out front. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may25\/may30.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And, nearby, this iris I don&#8217;t understand at all. But it is quite striking just now. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/may25\/may31.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, it will be warmer. A whole two degrees warmer. And on Friday, we might see the sun and 60 degrees, which would be a nice thing to experience in the last third of May. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another meeting. More departmental stuff, this time over appetizers. It was a meeting scheduled for two hours &#8212; so not a retreat, by rule &#8212; that somehow wound up going about three-and-a-half hours. And then, of course, there was being chummy with friends and colleagues. The usual sort of thing where you plot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,101,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573897991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-rowan","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897991","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573897991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573897992,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573897991\/revisions\/573897992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573897991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573897991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573897991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}