{"id":300,"date":"2011-07-19T12:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T20:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2011-07-19T12:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T20:53:52","slug":"rain-ahhhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Rain! Ahhhh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being in a time of drought is intriguing. Today it is raining. Don\u2019t know how long it will go, but Allee and I are savoring looking at it. There\u2019s a singing group named \u201cLadysmith Black Mombaso\u201d who in the 1970s (?) had a record (back in the olden days when there were vinyl 33.33 rotations\/per\/minute&#160; long playing records) with a song that goes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PisBYGGtmgI\">Rain, rain, beautiful rain<\/a>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guy goes into a bar in West Texas: \u201cBoy, it sure gets dry around here.\u201d \u201cYeah, says the bartender. You ever heard of Noah\u2019s flood?\u201d \u201cYeah.\u201d \u201cWell, we got an inch!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hot and dry jokes are circulating. It\u2019s sooo hot that I saw a dog chasin\u2019 a rabbit&#8212;and they wuz both walkin\u2019!<\/p>\n<p>Thank God for air conditioning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being in a time of drought is intriguing. Today it is raining. Don\u2019t know how long it will go, but Allee and I are savoring looking at it. There\u2019s a singing group named \u201cLadysmith Black Mombaso\u201d who in the 1970s (?) had a record (back in the olden days when there were vinyl 33.33 rotations\/per\/minute&#160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-foolin","category-whassup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}