{"id":483,"date":"2008-04-10T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T23:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2008-04-10T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T23:42:32","slug":"air-conditioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Air Conditioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>33 bar steep fall 29.69\u00a0 7 mph NE dewpoint 32\u00a0 Spring<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Crescent Moon of Growing<\/p>\n<p>Just got a call from the Sierra Club inviting me to my own party.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rain turned to part snow around 4:50PM and looks like it&#8217;s mostly snow now.\u00a0 As soon as the temps drop, it will transition to full snow and if it comes up this rate, it will accumulate.<\/p>\n<p>Checked out airfare to Dallas\/Ft. Worth in July.\u00a0 Only for family would I go to Dallas\/Ft. Worth and only for a family reunion would I go in July.\u00a0 Once, long ago, I took the train from Indiana to Ft. Worth where my Dad&#8217;s brother, Charles, lived.\u00a0 On the way I got molested while taking pictures with my Brownie camera, but I said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t do that.&#8221; to the guy who put his hand between my legs and he went away.\u00a0 It was not a big deal then or now.<\/p>\n<p>I hit Ft. Worth just as the temperature racked up 107.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know the temperatures in the world really got that hot.\u00a0 I knew it theoretically, but empirically?\u00a0 No way.\u00a0\u00a0 This would have 1956\/7 and I&#8217;d only experienced air conditioning on rare occasions.\u00a0 I remember repeating after I got back:\u00a0 I went from an air-conditioned train, to an air-conditioned car, to an air-conditioned house.\u00a0 This was remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>What the temps will be like this time I have no idea, but air-conditioning has gone from a comment-worthy rarity to a personal necessity.\u00a0 I have no doubt we&#8217;ll be well cooled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That weather seems a long way from the winds today, which hit 34 at 2:10pm, and the driving snow that builds up on our lawn as I write this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>33 bar steep fall 29.69\u00a0 7 mph NE dewpoint 32\u00a0 Spring \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Crescent Moon of Growing Just got a call from the Sierra Club inviting me to my own party.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;OK.&#8221; The rain turned to part snow around 4:50PM and looks like it&#8217;s mostly snow now.\u00a0 As soon as the temps drop, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Conditioning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,12,3],"tags":[4350,28,4343],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-travel","category-weather-climate","tag-family","tag-snow","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}