{"id":41710,"date":"2023-05-26T15:41:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=41710"},"modified":"2023-05-26T15:47:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:47:47","slug":"hotter-than-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=41710","title":{"rendered":"Hotter Than&#8230; Prague?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My local &#8216;newspaper&#8217; is often good for a giggle. Most of the major news is to do with restaurants\/shops opening, restaurants\/shops closing, &#8216;disgusted&#8217; and &#8216;horrified&#8217; people posing with funny expressions concerning all manner of issues (such as restaurants\/shops opening or closing), and their favourite: the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All through winter, they have been warning of blizzards and sub-zero temperatures. None of them happened. Occasionally, there would be talk of floods of Biblical proportions. None of those happened, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now summer is approaching, it&#8217;s the heat. It&#8217;s not actually hot yet, but they love making comparisons with other places. It&#8217;ll be hotter than Marbella. Or hotter than Cyprus. And so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But today it was announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/news\/bank-holiday-highs-21c-notts-8472028#comments-wrapper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bank holiday Nottinghamshire weather highs of 21C as county set to be hotter than Prague\">the forthcoming weekend will be hotter than&#8230; Prague<\/a> (have an ad-blocker ready). I don&#8217;t think I have ever wondered what the weather is like in Prague in order to compare it with ours. And I&#8217;m bracing myself for follow-up stories with photos of &#8216;disgusted&#8217; and &#8216;horrified&#8217; people scowling and pointing at the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;ll only be 21\u00b0C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My local &#8216;newspaper&#8217; is often good for a giggle. Most of the major news is to do with restaurants\/shops opening, restaurants\/shops closing, &#8216;disgusted&#8217; and &#8216;horrified&#8217; people posing with funny expressions concerning all manner of issues (such as restaurants\/shops opening or closing), and their favourite: the weather. All through winter, they have been warning of blizzards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}