{"id":10361,"date":"2017-01-17T21:31:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T02:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10361"},"modified":"2017-09-13T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:45:19","slug":"a-summers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=10361","title":{"rendered":"A summer’s day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had the air conditioning on in the car today.<\/p>\n

It’s January 17.<\/p>\n

76 degrees here in Atlanta, according to our car’s gauge.<\/p>\n

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A week ago, ice on the roads kept the workers away from finishing our house.<\/p>\n

I read last week that another big chunk of Antarctica has an 11-mile crack<\/a> and may be about to break off.<\/p>\n

With the severe drought, we had no real autumn, and this winter is shaping up to be more like summer.<\/p>\n

I will not think about the coming spring and hurricane season.<\/p>\n

Climate change is now beyond prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At 6:30, half an hour after sunset, it was still 70 degrees when I started my evening walk.<\/p>\n

The city lit the warm air with summertime clarity.<\/p>\n

Each shine cut through the darkness, making bright tiles.<\/p>\n

Each light distinct and apart.<\/p>\n

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The King and Queen buildings, with no connection to the tennis courts far below, unrelated to their own reflection in the lake.<\/p>\n

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A yard full of solar lights cascading down in a waterless stream.<\/p>\n

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An office, stark lines, black lumps of chairs like night workers.<\/p>\n

Have we, like the weather, lost our cohesion?<\/p>\n

The official temperature was 75 degrees, a record high for Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 1997, when the record low for Atlanta was set – 12 degrees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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