{"id":1431,"date":"2005-08-13T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2005-08-13T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T17:50:00","slug":"standing-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"Standing in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes ago, while chicago was still in the midst of downpour, I went out to stand in our concrete backyard in nothing but some old athletic shorts (hand-me-downs from Ro, I think) turning my face up to the sky.  Just to enjoy the rain.  I tried to do that a time or two in berkeley, but the bay area doesn&#8217;t have cooling summer rains, only chilling winter rains.  So I stopped trying it there.  But it did remind me of a time, a decade ago, when I was out on the porch in front of AEPi indulging in a similar romp in a cool summer rain, with <lj user=c_star> and some bemused onlookers.  Nostalgia is a funny thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes ago, while chicago was still in the midst of downpour, I went out to stand in our concrete backyard in nothing but some old athletic shorts (hand-me-downs from Ro, I think) turning my face up to the sky. Just to enjoy the rain. I tried to do that a time or two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Standing in the rain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}