{"id":575,"date":"2007-07-21T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T10:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=575"},"modified":"2007-07-21T11:47:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T10:47:36","slug":"what-happened-to-our-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"What happened to our summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in Britain, you had your answer yesterday. If you&#8217;re one of my many readers from outside the UK, you may be astonished to learn that yesterday we had what the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper called &#8220;some of the heaviest rainfall in living memory&#8221; which, at its worst, represented two months of rain in just one day &#8211; more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/weather\/Story\/0,,2131580,00.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFortunately I was working at home yesterday, so I stayed dry but, around 11 am, we had the most ferocious thunderstorm that I can remember. There was absolutely torrential rain, the wind howled, and there was a flash of lightning and an explosion of thunder that seemed to make the house jump and absolutely terrified our cat Honey who spent the whole storm hiding under a bed.<br \/>\nWater dripped into a spare bedroom wardrobe for the first time in the 23 years that we&#8217;ve lived here (I think that the strength of the wind forced the rain into a tiny crack in a roof over the extension). Since we live on a hill, the rain poured through the bottom of the garage door and down into the back garden.<br \/>\nAnd yet, it all stopped as suddenly as it started and we were able to have lunch on the terrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in Britain, you had your answer yesterday. If you&#8217;re one of my many readers from outside the UK, you may be astonished to learn that yesterday we had what the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper called &#8220;some of the heaviest rainfall in living memory&#8221; which, at its worst, represented two months of rain in just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}