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We are experiencing “the muggies”, as we used to say back in Wisconsin.  My desktop weather widget says the temperature outside is ninety-nine degrees and the weather oracles are forecasting more of the same for the next days.  My decision to replace my ailing air conditioning unit a couple months ago seems rather prudent, as the old unit had a tendency to clog up with ice formations on extremely hot days such as this.  I do need to venture out later to attend a friend’s party, but otherwise I plan on watching the sidewalks buckle from the comfort of my home. <\/DIV>
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People frequently ask me if I experience health difficulties because of the heat.  Actually, I’m much more comfortable in extreme heat than extreme cold.  I don’t have to worry about exposed body parts going numb and I don’t have to wear bulky layers of clothing.  The only thing I have to remind myself to do is stay hydrated.  My wheelchair, being mostly black, absorbs a ton of heat and my seating material doesn’t breathe well, especially around my back.  Accordingly, I’m liable to turn into a dry husk of a corpse if I don’t get watered now and then.  <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are experiencing “the muggies”, as we used to say back in Wisconsin.  My desktop weather widget says the temperature outside is ninety-nine degrees and the weather oracles are forecasting more of the same for the next days.  My decision to replace my ailing air conditioning unit a couple months ago seems rather prudent, as […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-scorcher","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}