{"id":5758,"date":"2013-12-27T07:40:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2014-01-30T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T06:51:41","slug":"a-spot-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/a-spot-of-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"A spot of rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5698\" alt=\"20131229 006\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-006-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-006-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-006.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It was just a spot of rain, but it freshened everything up. Last December\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/30\/birds-in-the-sunset\/\">we recorded the hottest temperature<\/a> on record but this year, we\u00a0have only had five hot days in the middle of the month, and these last 10 days have been cooler than average. \u00a0It does not feel like a normal summer as we have not really had many easterly winds, and as a result, we have not had as many flies blowing in from the interior. \u00a0 This is just as well as the cooler weather is inhibiting the dung beetles who had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/01\/first-dung-beetles\/\">a bit of a false start<\/a> with the hot days in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a spot of rain, but it freshened everything up. Last December\u00a0we recorded the hottest temperature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5698,"comment_status":"closed","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,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/20131229-006.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5759,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions\/5759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}