{"id":9802,"date":"2010-06-14T08:01:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=9802"},"modified":"2010-06-17T01:32:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T17:32:34","slug":"so-not-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/14\/so-not-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"So Not Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When someone tells me about Summer, I think about the 46\u00b0C heat I experienced in my years in Perth. It was so crazily hot that you could put an egg on a frying pan, hold it out in the sun for 10 minutes and get back a half-boiled egg. I remembered the state had to ask its residents to dial down their air-conditioning use as everyone was using it simultaneously as relief from the heat, and the massive upsurge in electricity use was stressing out the state\u2019s power generators.<\/p>\n<p>So, in my packing for my trip to Boston, I was all prepared for summer weather. What I wasn\u2019t prepared for was this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8504-freedomTrail\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8504-freedomTrail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_8504freedomTrail.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/>&#160;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8500-freedomTrail\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8500-freedomTrail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_8500freedomTrail.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or worse still, this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8587-foggy-pana01\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8587-foggy-pana01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_8587foggypana01.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/>&#160;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8564-foggy\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8564-foggy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_8564foggy.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I looked up two of Boston\u2019s taller skyscrapers, what I saw was really this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8563-foggy\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8563-foggy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_8563foggy.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"414\" \/>&#160;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8570-foggy\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_8570-foggy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_8570foggy.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And there was nothing wrong with the lens. It was fog\u2026 gggaah. Fog in summer?!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Ling has a series of posts in the queue with updates on Hannah. Gonna sequence them all up, then continue on my Boston posts from midweek onwards with Sunday visitations to the New England Aquarium, Back Bay, Trinity Church (just awesome), and Bunker Hill.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone tells me about Summer, I think about the 46\u00b0C heat I experienced in my years in Perth. It was so crazily hot that you could put an egg on a frying pan, hold it out in the sun<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/14\/so-not-summer\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  So Not Summer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[469,465,137],"class_list":["post-9802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-cameras","category-traveling","tag-boston-2010","tag-18-55mm","tag-d300","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}