{"id":556,"date":"2009-06-01T19:08:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2009-06-02T19:34:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:34:48","slug":"spring-has-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/spring-has-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring has ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-543\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/conceit\/di090601\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-543\" title=\"di090601\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/di090601.jpg\" alt=\"di090601\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/di090601.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/di090601-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lilacs, or &#8220;syrin&#8221; as we call them in Norway (probably from the botanical name Syringa).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With June, it is officially summer. \u00c2\u00a0In Norway at least, the official summer months are June, July and August. It is already this hot in June, and the remaining dandelions have turned to fluff. \u00c2\u00a0Despite the heat, I took another long walk. \u00c2\u00a0The second day of Pentecost is a day off in Norway, probably not so much for the sake of the Pentecostals as because it is a nice time of the year to have a day off. \u00c2\u00a0Pentecost is not a big holiday in the post-Christian Scandinavia, and even to the older generation it looms not nearly as large as Easter and Christmas. \u00c2\u00a0Consequently, I not only bought some food but even quietly mowed a bit of the lawn. \u00c2\u00a0I see that as exercise rather than work, actually. \u00c2\u00a0But I would probably have taken the walk even without the excuse of going to the shop nearly half an hour&#8217;s walk away. \u00c2\u00a0It was a beautiful day, and wind made the heat just bearable. Of course, my body is still accustomed to the chilly spring. \u00c2\u00a0Hopefully it will adapt before the true summer heat sets in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilacs, or &#8220;syrin&#8221; as we call them in Norway (probably from the botanical name Syringa). With June, it is officially summer. \u00c2\u00a0In Norway at least, the official summer months are June, July and August. It is already this hot in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/spring-has-ended\/\">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":[71,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}