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A co-worker told me that it rains more in Birmingham than Seattle. I can’t find any statistics to validate that claim, but it’s rained for a straight week now, so I believe him. I haven’t been swimming a single time this summer. So, since I can’t partake of the quintessential summer activity, I pacified myself by buying a big carton of Blue Bell Exquisite Mint ice cream. Sadly, my freezer is apparently slightly warmer than my refrigerator, because I put it in overnight to harden up and when I stuck my spoon in this afternoon, it was soupy. Sigh.<\/p>\n
I also randomly decided I deserved some new books, so I picked up Dress Your Family in Curdoroy<\/em> and Denim (David Sedaris), Fear of Flying <\/em>(Erica Jong), and Transgressions <\/em>(Joyce Carol Oates). I started and finished Dress Your Family<\/em> (superb as expected) and began Fear of Flying<\/em>, which — so far — I really like. <\/p>\n Tonight there’s a whoopee cushion circulating the office, and it’s actually pretty funny to see how it embarrasses everyone when that loose fart sound echoes through the newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Now you should know by now] A co-worker told me that it rains more in Birmingham than Seattle. I can’t find any statistics to validate that claim, but it’s rained for a straight week now, so I believe him. I haven’t been swimming a single time this summer. So, since I can’t partake of the quintessential summer activity, I pacified myself by buying a big carton of Blue Bell Exquisite Mint ice cream. Sadly, my… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-141","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}