{"id":3053,"date":"2023-08-31T11:10:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2023-09-26T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:33:18","slug":"petrichor-and-puddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"Petrichor and puddles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>People think that it rains all the time in Portland, Oregon. I moved here years ago hoping it was true. But summers here are sunny and dry, often hot&#8211;and getting more so. The summer of 2023 was positively arid, which is why I am thrilled to celebrate the last day of August with a cozy gray sky, the patter of steadily falling drops, and the scents of wet leaves and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/37648-good-smells-rain-petrichor.html\">petrichor<\/a> coming in through all the open windows. Xanthe the cat won&#8217;t get her daily walk up this sodden path behind the house just yet.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Petrichor-and-puddles-Aug-2023-even-smaller-338x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3054 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Petrichor-and-puddles-Aug-2023-even-smaller-338x450.jpg 338w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Petrichor-and-puddles-Aug-2023-even-smaller-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Petrichor-and-puddles-Aug-2023-even-smaller-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Petrichor-and-puddles-Aug-2023-even-smaller-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Petrichor-and-puddles-Aug-2023-even-smaller-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Petrichor-and-puddles-Aug-2023-even-smaller-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Petrichor-and-puddles-Aug-2023-even-smaller-rotated.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People think that it rains all the time in Portland, Oregon. I moved here years ago hoping it was true. But summers here are sunny and dry, often hot&#8211;and getting more so. The summer of 2023 was positively arid, which is why I am thrilled to celebrate the last day of August with a cozy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oregon","tag-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}