{"id":875,"date":"2013-01-30T21:03:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2013-01-30T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T09:03:09","slug":"5-things-about-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2013\/01\/5-things-about-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things about Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I go with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homelifesimplified.com.au\/listmania-two-your-current-season\/\" target=\"_blank\">Listmania # 2<\/a> &#8211; five things I love about the current season, and 5 things I&#8217;m not so keen on. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/?attachment_id=879\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879\" alt=\"Big summer sky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blog-Summer-love-1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blog-Summer-love-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blog-Summer-love-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blog-Summer-love-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s SUMMER here in New Zealand &#8211; my favourite season. I like most things about summer, but especially:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>higher temperatures (I hate being cold)<\/li>\n<li>longer days &#8211; I can get so much more done, and I&#8217;m more likely to exercise<\/li>\n<li>people are generally more relaxed, and casual clothes are OK at work<\/li>\n<li>lots of my favourite special events seem to be in summer &#8211; Christmas and New Year, summer holidays (aka vacations to those from the American continent), summer reading programme at the library where I work, celebrations and parties just because it&#8217;s summer<\/li>\n<li>summer fruit and vegetables that make it easy to eat well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/?attachment_id=878\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-878\" alt=\"Summer fruit bowl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blog-Summer-love-2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blog-Summer-love-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blog-Summer-love-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blog-Summer-love-2-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>The things I&#8217;m not so keen about are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>flies &#8211; especially the clustering variety (hopefully it will be so dry this year they won&#8217;t be able to get out of the ground and I&#8217;ll only be annoyed by the usual kind)<\/li>\n<li>hot nights &#8211; I like being hot in the daytime, but I find it easier to sleep when the nights are on the cooler side<\/li>\n<li>sweating &#8211; ugh<\/li>\n<li>sunburn &#8211; and having to avoid it<\/li>\n<li>having to have all the windows open in the car to make it bearable to be in, but then getting blown away at open road speed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I admit, I had to stretch a bit to find five things I don&#8217;t like. I&#8217;m a summer girl!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I go with Listmania # 2 &#8211; five things I love about the current season, and 5 things I&#8217;m not so keen on. It&#8217;s SUMMER here in New Zealand &#8211; my favourite season. I like most things about summer, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/2013\/01\/5-things-about-summer\/\">Continue reading <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":[56,5],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-im-thinking","category-life","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevilo.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}