{"id":16,"date":"2005-05-20T14:15:58","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T18:15:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"the_unofficial_start_of_summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/the_unofficial_start_of_summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The (unofficial) start of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend and next represent the unofficial start of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solstice\">summer<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/custom?domains=AccessNiagara.com&amp;q=Niagara+Falls&amp;sitesearch=&amp;sa=Search&amp;client=pub-7220899859261536&amp;forid=1&amp;channel=9780714524&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;oe=ISO-8859-1&amp;cof=GALT%3A%23008000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3BVLC%3A663399%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3A336699%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A0000FF%3BGIMP%3A0000FF%3BFORID%3A1%3B&amp;hl=en\">Niagara Falls<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria_Day\">Victoria Day<\/a> (in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\">Canada<\/a>) \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day\">Memorial Day<\/a> (in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\">US<\/a>) weekends are either on the same weekend or one week apart. We&#8217;re almost guaranteed to have decent weather, and so even though summer is still officially a month away, it is actually starting today.<\/p>\n<p>The grass is green, the sky is blue, the temperature is great. Let the people come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend and next represent the unofficial start of summer in Niagara Falls. The Victoria Day (in Canada) \/ Memorial Day (in US) weekends are either on the same weekend or one week apart. We&#8217;re almost guaranteed to have decent weather, and so even though summer is still officially a month away, it is actually&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}