{"id":370,"date":"2004-10-20T00:07:52","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T15:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2009-02-02T00:12:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T15:12:43","slug":"here-comes-the-rain-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the rain again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 16:25. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to typhoon &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/T332589.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tokage<\/a>&#8221; my evening meetings have been cancelled and I find myself at home, wearing a bathrobe, an exfoliating skin-mask on my face and drinking Japanese whisky neat.<br \/>\nActually, those last two items are not quite true- that&#8217;s what I am about to do.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from taking care of urgent aesthetic matters, I also have a lot of administrative work stuff to attend to, so I am sure that the rare opportunity to stay home and not leave the house until tomorrow morning means that I should be able to get a lot done.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_371\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371\" class=\"size-full wp-image-371\" title=\"tokage\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tokage.jpg\" alt=\"Now that's a typhoon\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tokage.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tokage-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now that&#39;s a typhoon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(image source: NOAA )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 16:25. Wednesday. Thanks to typhoon &#8220;Tokage&#8221; my evening meetings have been cancelled and I find myself at home, wearing a bathrobe, an exfoliating skin-mask on my face and drinking Japanese whisky neat. Actually, those last two items are not quite true- that&#8217;s what I am about to do. Apart from taking care of urgent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}