{"id":4245,"date":"2017-10-07T07:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T22:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2017-10-07T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T22:52:29","slug":"the-end-of-smugness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-end-of-smugness\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of Smugness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up in Washington state. There was only one season south of Seattle. It was rain. I have lived in Japan for a while. There seems to be two seasons, Hot and Cold. It gets muggy and unbearable in the Summer. Then there is a few days of moderate temperature then the temperature loses pressure under its wings and tailspins. It goes from close to 90 to around 60. One day you need AC then it seems in a matter of days you need heat. The smug humidity is gone and the bracing chill comes.<\/p>\n

I grew up with ice on the windshield in the morning. I rarely get that here but it feels colder. That is for two reasons. One, the older houses have poor insulation and are like having only a Windbreaker on a\u00a0 Winter’s day. Two, I walk more here. I have a 7 minute walk to the subway station whereas in the Seattle area I walked to a cold car and waited for the heater to kick in and scraped a windshield in the Winter.<\/p>\n

How about you? When do your seasons kick in?<\/p>\n

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I grew up in Washington state. There was only one season south of Seattle. It was rain. I have lived in Japan for a while. There seems to be two seasons, Hot and Cold. It gets muggy and unbearable in the Summer. Then there is a few days of moderate temperature then the temperature loses pressure under its wings and tailspins. It goes from close to 90 to around 60. One day you need AC then it seems in a matter of days you need heat. The smug humidity is gone and the bracing chill comes.<\/p>\n

I grew up with ice on the windshield in the morning. I rarely get that here but it feels colder. That is for two reasons. One, the older houses have poor insulation … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4246,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions\/4246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}