{"id":28,"date":"2003-06-21T18:56:50","date_gmt":"2003-06-21T22:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatedream.net\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/21\/midsummer\/"},"modified":"2003-06-21T18:56:50","modified_gmt":"2003-06-21T22:56:50","slug":"midsummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/21\/midsummer\/","title":{"rendered":"Midsummer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the longest day of the year &#8211; I can hardly believe it. To me it feels as if summer has hardly begun, and it&#8217;s already supposed to be half over? At least today feels right &#8212; it&#8217;s hot and sunny, with no cloud in the sky. I had to work the early shift at the retirement home, from 8am to 2.30pm, and when I came outside I was almost overwhelmed by the heat.<\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of people outside, mostly young because of a big youth anti-discrimination festival happening this weekend. Also there&#8217;s an open-air ecumenical service in a park tonight, where hopefully a lot of people will go to, too. But truth be told I&#8217;m not going to either of these events &#8212; at first it was too hot to move, and now I feel pretty tired, and I have to work again tomorrow morning. Simply don&#8217;t want to leave the house. Bad Eva, very bad! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to tomorrow afternoon &#8212; for the first time this year I&#8217;ll go to the open-air pool, which is normally my second home in summer but so far it just never worked out. I love going there, not to swim (I&#8217;m not a keen swimmer <i>at all<\/i>) but to sit in the grass, in the shade of some big tree, feel the warm air and (most importantly) people watch and talk with my friends. There&#8217;s always something to be seen &#8212; people are simply funny, or weird, or plain interesting, and from time to time gorgeous&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I wish everyone a good Midsummer&#8217;s Night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the longest day of the year &#8211; I can hardly believe it. To me it feels as if summer has hardly begun, and it&#8217;s already supposed to be half over? At least today feels right &#8212; it&#8217;s hot and sunny, with no cloud in the sky. I had to work the early shift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}