{"id":91970,"date":"2019-07-25T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=91970"},"modified":"2019-07-25T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:48:38","slug":"occasional-daily-weather-report-got-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=91970","title":{"rendered":"occasional daily weather report; got shade?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/user\/botanizeme\/media\/theodorepayne2019othertours\/IMG_1432.jpg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/theodorepayne2019othertours\/IMG_1432.jpg\" alt=\" photo IMG_1432.jpg\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Shade structure at Theodore Payne Foundation in April<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cooler with some moisture<\/strong>:  I haven&#8217;t done an ODWR in quite a while, but today inspired me to file a report.  <em>The pavement was wet this morning<\/em>.   Wet I tell you!  Enough drops were falling to drum some spare syncopation on the pergola&#8217;s corrugated roof.  The fleeting tap-tap-ping! concert was enjoyed while sitting on the bench under the pergola with the first cup of coffee.  And with the moisture-saturated air, it&#8217;s noticeably cooler.  Supposedly we&#8217;re going to drop out of the 90s today.  Yes, Long Beach is technically a beach city, but we&#8217;re always the hottest beach city in Los Angeles County.   And the overall climate?  Heat records breaking all over Europe.   Political climate?  Cowardice\/avarice at the highest levels of U.S. government prevail regarding mitigating the effects of heat-trapping emissions.   Facing an epic failure of leadership at the national level, I just have to bring up trees again, and this piece deserves a spot on your reading list:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curbed.com\/2019\/7\/10\/20687762\/trees-in-cities-climate-change-health-benefits\">How Trees Can Save Us<\/a>:   \u201c<em>A tree is a piece of equitable green infrastructure&#8230;For some people, having access to trees can be a matter of life and death<\/em>.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find some shade and stay cool!<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooler with some moisture: I haven&#8217;t done an ODWR in quite a while, but today inspired me to file a report. The pavement was wet this morning. Wet I tell you! Enough drops were falling to drum some spare syncopation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=91970\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1082],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-nVo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91970"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92011,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91970\/revisions\/92011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}