{"id":573898150,"date":"2025-07-17T20:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898150"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:34:14","slug":"the-kind-of-heat-thats-just-painful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/07\/17\/the-kind-of-heat-thats-just-painful\/","title":{"rendered":"The kind of heat that&#8217;s just painful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our bike-riding neighbors sent out a note calling for a ride today, and it just seemed like a bad idea. The heat index, at that moment this afternoon, was 114 miserable degrees. <\/p>\n<p>In my many years of experience with extreme summer weather I can tell you this: nothing over 106 matters. It just reads as pain. <\/p>\n<p>So I did not go for a bike ride today. But I washed clothes. And, also, I watched a documentary I&#8217;ve decided to add to my fall class. It&#8217;s a little bit older, this documentary, but it includes a few things I didn&#8217;t know about a moment I&#8217;ve studied a fair amount. The real point will be in our analysis of the film as a product, and I made several pages of notes. It might, in fact, become the first one we watch in the class. Some of the points in it could set a tone. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerhouse.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, let&#8217;s look at some more flowers. It&#8217;s difficult to say a hibiscus is sneaky, but this one did sneak up on me this year. One day it was a shrub and then last week, this happened.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july25\/july21.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I might prefer the hibiscus flowers in their early form. Intricate. Sturdy. Delicate. Full of promise. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july25\/july22.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now, this week, the hydrangeas are making their play for attention. We have two of these giant white hydrangeas. And I hope that, this year, we don&#8217;t get a torrential rain that ruins them before their show is done. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july25\/july23.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If we ever design a flowerbed of our own, I&#8217;d make the argument that it should be chronologically designed, with each section intending to show off its best work as the season progresses. One thing leading to the next, a calendar of clump, a slower sun dial, if you will. <\/p>\n<p>One that can handle the heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our bike-riding neighbors sent out a note calling for a ride today, and it just seemed like a bad idea. The heat index, at that moment this afternoon, was 114 miserable degrees. In my many years of experience with extreme summer weather I can tell you this: nothing over 106 matters. It just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573898150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-photo","category-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898150","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=573898150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573898154,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573898150\/revisions\/573898154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573898150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573898150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573898150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}