{"id":217,"date":"2006-01-02T21:05:34","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/02\/another_fine_da\/"},"modified":"2006-01-02T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T21:05:34","slug":"another_fine_da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Another Fine Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Updated 8\/1\/06]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I woke up this morning at 7:30 there was not a cloud in the sky. I&#8217;ve<br \/>\nseen that happen so many times down here. At 7:30 it is clear. By 9am it is<br \/>\ncompletely overcast and I had given up hope of it being a beach day.<\/p>\n<p>However, the strange weather conditions continued and by 1pm there wasn&#8217;t<br \/>\na cloud in the sky and it turned into a beautiful afternoon. Probably a couple<br \/>\nof degrees below perfect, but very nice nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p>It made me think about how the weather on holiday changes my mood. Yesterday<br \/>\nafternoon I just read but ended up with a &quot;stuffy&quot; head. It was<br \/>\nnice for one day to catch up with reading. But by this morning I was feeling<br \/>\ndown about the thought of another day to cool to go to the beach. I guess<br \/>\nit&#8217;s just tied up with my earliest memories of summer holidays.Summer holidays<br \/>\nare about the beach and if I can&#8217;t go to the beach, then I don&#8217;t feel I&#8217;m<br \/>\non holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, three of our girls joined us down here yesterday and we all went<br \/>\nto the beach.<\/p>\n<p>After that a BBQ dinner at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfcoast.vic.gov.au\/coogoorahpark.htm?p10\">Coogoorah<br \/>\nPark<\/a> and now we are back at the house with the girls watching <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/greysanatomy\/\"><em>Grey&#8217;s<br \/>\nAnatomy<\/em><\/a> and playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trivialpursuit.com\"><em>Trivial<br \/>\nPursuit<\/em><\/a> in the ad breaks. Outside, the crickets are singing reminding<br \/>\nme that it is summer in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Updated 8\/1\/06] When I woke up this morning at 7:30 there was not a cloud in the sky. I&#8217;ve seen that happen so many times down here. At 7:30 it is clear. By 9am it is completely overcast and I had given up hope of it being a beach day. However, the strange weather conditions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}