{"id":8863,"date":"2012-07-02T18:31:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T17:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8863"},"modified":"2012-07-06T08:55:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T07:55:14","slug":"thank-goodness-were-no-longer-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8863","title":{"rendered":"Thank goodness, we&#8217;re no longer in the United States (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our major holiday in 2011 was a week in Syria [my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Levant.html\">here<\/a>] and a couple of weeks later the revolution began there and continues its bloody course to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Our major holiday this year was two weeks in the United States [my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/USAtrip\">here<\/a>] &#8211; including one week in the Washington DC area &#8211; and a month later the region was hit by record temperatures for June and a ferocious type of storm known as a derecho [more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/post\/derecho-behind-washington-dcs-destructive-thunderstorm-outbreak-june-29-2012\/2012\/06\/30\/gJQA22O7DW_blog.html\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness, we live in Britain where the politics and the climate are both relatively moderate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our major holiday in 2011 was a week in Syria [my account here] and a couple of weeks later the revolution began there and continues its bloody course to this day. Our major holiday this year was two weeks in the United States [my account here] &#8211; including one week in the Washington DC area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863","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=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}