{"id":3977,"date":"2010-06-21T22:38:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T02:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2010-06-21T22:38:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T02:38:05","slug":"the-longest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3977","title":{"rendered":"The longest day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4719030319\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4719030319_0a651afe05.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Today is supposedly the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, but I can say as I noticed. It was mostly an unexciting day, despite its being my first back at work since last Thursday. I&#8217;m feeling a whole lot better, though I can&#8217;t quite shake this cough. <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Forgotten English is &#8220;puthering,&#8221; meaning &#8220;pouring with rain,&#8221; but it was bright and sunny all day long, so it&#8217;s not exactly appropriate. Last Friday&#8217;s calendar page, however, offered &#8220;inexpressibles&#8221; as &#8220;a euphemism for trousers,&#8221; and I think I&#8217;m going to try using <i>that<\/i> more often in conversation. I think more perfectly innocent words like trousers should have euphemisms that make them sound naughty.<\/p>\n<p>I am a little sad that tomorrow will have just a smidgen less daylight in it, but them&#8217;s the breaks.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is supposedly the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, but I can say as I noticed. It was mostly an unexciting day, despite its being my first back at work since last Thursday. I&#8217;m feeling a whole lot better, though I can&#8217;t quite shake this cough. Today&#8217;s Forgotten English is &#8220;puthering,&#8221; meaning &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3977\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,92,28,114],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-health","tag-history","tag-personal","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}