{"id":334,"date":"2009-02-18T18:42:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=334"},"modified":"2009-02-21T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T15:34:47","slug":"everyone-gripes-about-the-weather-but-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/02\/18\/everyone-gripes-about-the-weather-but-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone gripes about the weather, but nobody&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know what?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m absolutely, positively <em>sick\u00c2\u00a0to death<\/em> of the weather we&#8217;re experiencing this winter. I hate the cold. I hate the snow, the half-snow and the freezing rain that alternately assault us. I hate the pea-gravel that my boots track into the house. I hate warming up the car, and scraping the hoarfrost from the windows before I drive. (I hate sharing the roads with the dopes that don&#8217;t bother clearing their windows of ice while they &#8216;drive&#8217;, phone in hand, in a hurry because they didn&#8217;t leave adequate time to reach their destination.) I hate the potholes caused by the water that seeps into the ill-maintained roadways. I hate the pile of clothing I shed before crawling into bed. I hate the layers and layers of additional clothing I need when I ride. I hate waiting for the shower to deliver warm water in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>I think you might get the general idea. But if not, just ask.<\/p>\n<p>How I <em>long<\/em> for the hazy, hot and humid summer. Give me a hundred plus degrees and get ready to hear me say, &#8220;What? That&#8217;s <em>it<\/em>? Is <em>that<\/em> all you got? Bring it on!&#8221; HHH? Uh uh, it should be HHHH with the extra H standing for Hellish.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my standard for perfect weather. Close your eyes. Now, stride into the ocean. Can you tell where the air and water meet? If the answer is negative, the weather&#8217;s perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention I hate winter? Well, I do.<\/p>\n<div>We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know what? I&#8217;m absolutely, positively sick\u00c2\u00a0to death of the weather we&#8217;re experiencing this winter. I hate the cold. I hate the snow, the half-snow and the freezing rain that alternately assault us. I hate the pea-gravel that my boots track into the house. I hate warming up the car, and scraping the hoarfrost from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/02\/18\/everyone-gripes-about-the-weather-but-nobody\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everyone gripes about the weather, but nobody&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}