{"id":9054,"date":"2012-05-26T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9054"},"modified":"2012-05-26T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T13:19:21","slug":"summertime-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9054","title":{"rendered":"Summertime Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/356;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; float: left\" title=\"Sunny Weather\" alt=\"Sunny Weather\" align=\"left\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/weather_forecast.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"356\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>Well, it\u2019s started.<\/p>\n<p>I dislike the hot weather at the best of times &#8211; I much prefer it to be cooler &#8211; but I know I am in a minority on that score.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t normally get many pupils cancelling (you get minor epidemics of it a few times a year), but since the sun came out &#8211; in other words, over the last three days &#8211; I have had at least six \u201cmix-ups\u201d, \u201cillnesses\u201d, and simple \u201cwon\u2019t be here\u201d messages.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what would happen if I texted <strong>them<\/strong> the day before their tests and told them I\u2019d got my diary mixed up, was unwell, or simply wasn\u2019t going to be there?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019ll be reading the riot act a few times over the next week. I only let them get away with it once or twice, then they\u2019ll find themselves looking for a new instructor.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn\u2019t be so bad if they told the truth, but I know bloody well why they cancelled &#8211; they\u2019re going to an impromptu barbecue or other sun-related event that most people in this country flock to zombie-like as soon as it gets a bit warm. And it becomes self-fuelling &#8211; I\u2019m just waiting for the sunburn and food poisoning excuses to come out next week.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, that isn\u2019t a real forecast in the picture &#8211; I just made it look wall-to-wall sunny. In any case, AccuWeather is as reliable as holding your finger in the air to decide what it\u2019s going to be doing tomorrow. In fact, the most accurate thing AccuWeather does is tell you what the weather is doing 10 minutes after it\u2019s done it. Anything on the future timeline simply changes to match the recent past once it arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it\u2019s started. I dislike the hot weather at the best of times &#8211; I much prefer it to be cooler &#8211; but I know I am in a minority on that score. I don\u2019t normally get many pupils cancelling (you get minor epidemics of it a few times a year), but since the sun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-training"],"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\/9054","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=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}