{"id":6,"date":"2007-06-13T21:36:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/reflections-on-8-days-of-sun\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:18:26","slug":"reflections-on-8-days-of-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/reflections-on-8-days-of-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on 8 days of sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a fair amount of research over the 8 days of sun that ended today, and I came to a conclusion. When the sun is out in Dublin, it is at least as strong as the sun in Gurnee in mid-May. It is more than strong enough to bask in a sunny spot, even late in the day.<\/p>\n<p>This was a subject of some speculation before I left the lower latitudes of Chicagoland (42\u00b0 N), Pennsylvania (40\u00b0 N), New Jersey and NYC (40\u00b0 N). At that time, Anita was sending messages that vividly portrayed a dim sun that rarely penetrated thick clouds. To reassure myself, I thought, &#8220;Surely Dublin is no higher than the UP &#8212; and people sunbathe there, right?&#8221; Then I actually checked:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dd>Michigan&#8217;s UP: 46\u00b0 N<\/dd>\n<dd>Dublin: 53\u00b0 N<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dd>Eek!<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<p>Is this one of the many things that cannot be conveyed by reading and research about a place? I couldn&#8217;t trust Irish sources, after all; &#8220;basking in the sun&#8221; might mean something very different to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a fair amount of research over the 8 days of sun that ended today, and I came to a conclusion. When the sun is out in Dublin, it is at least as strong as the sun in Gurnee in mid-May. It is more than strong enough to bask in a sunny spot, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7,5],"tags":[547,549,760,759,545,546,550,551,107,548,540,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}