{"id":31,"date":"2012-06-12T00:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2012-06-12T16:28:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:28:05","slug":"i-am-melting-like-those-nazis-that-opened-the-ark-of-the-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"I am melting like those Nazis that opened the Ark of the Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Self Portrait Wherein I am Melting\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7076\/7363552406_4b8c5d0532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"460\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine, don&#39;t look at it. Shut your eyes, Christine. Don&#39;t look at it, no matter what happens!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Holy guacamole we&#8217;ve been having a summer heat wave in San Francisco.\u00a0 And by &#8220;heat wave&#8221; I mean temperatures between 70F-80F \/ 21C-27C.\u00a0 Sooo, not very hot.\u00a0 And yet, I am convinced that this is exactly what death feels like.<\/p>\n<p>It must be part of the human condition, to always feel like you are about to explode if the temperature varies by a few degrees outside of the average for your area.\u00a0 Because living in Bermuda, Australia, and wherever, I not only tolerated scorching hot days but enjoyed them.\u00a0 Alas, this is all that remains: a Christine that looks like a melting wax figurine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy guacamole we&#8217;ve been having a summer heat wave in San Francisco.\u00a0 And by &#8220;heat wave&#8221; I mean temperatures between 70F-80F \/ 21C-27C.\u00a0 Sooo, not very hot.\u00a0 And yet, I am convinced that this is exactly what death feels like. It must be part of the human condition, to always feel like you are about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=31\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I am melting like those Nazis that opened the Ark of the Covenant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[27,24,30,26,23,25,28,29],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-doodles","tag-die","tag-heat-wave","tag-indiana-jones","tag-melt","tag-raiders-of-the-lost-ark","tag-san-francisco","tag-self-portrait","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}