{"id":72,"date":"2015-08-24T02:57:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T02:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-08-24T02:57:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T02:57:42","slug":"summer-of-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Summer of smoke."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/smoky-morning_20150822.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/smoky-morning_20150822.jpg?resize=780%2C558\" alt=\"smoky-morning_20150822\" width=\"780\" height=\"558\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/smoky-morning_20150822.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/smoky-morning_20150822.jpg?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is what the sky looked like yesterday morning at around 8:00, and it looked about the same today. That orange-gray haze is smoke from all the wildfires raging in northeastern Washington State, and when I step outside I can smell the smoke in the air. I&#8217;m fortunate not to have asthma, or any other difficulties breathing, but my throat has felt scraped raw all day and I&#8217;ve got a low-grade headache.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a shitty summer, to be honest, given the unusual, extreme heat and dryness, as well as the fires. I&#8217;d like to think this is an aberration, and that we&#8217;ll get plenty of rain and snow this winter, and that next summer will be glorious as usual. But given the state of global climate change, I&#8217;m not optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what the sky looked like yesterday morning at around 8:00, and it looked about the same today. That orange-gray haze is smoke from all the wildfires raging in northeastern Washington State, and when I step outside I can smell the smoke in the air. I&#8217;m fortunate not to have asthma, or any other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harmlessweirdo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}