{"id":306,"date":"2003-09-04T11:49:20","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T18:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=306"},"modified":"2003-09-04T11:49:20","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T18:49:20","slug":"summer-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2003\/09\/04\/summer-persists\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather grayed out yesterday evening, and something inside said, &#8220;Oh well, so much for summer weather:  now the normal Irish autumn starts.&#8221;  But not yet.  Got up this morning to bright, warm sunshine&#8230;but with that strange, blunt, &#8220;mellow&#8221; quality on it that says, &#8220;Get ready for the leaves to start turning. Though not just yet&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cats are back from the kennel and have either slept all over us (as usual for the females) or spent all night out peeing on things to mark them (as usual for the males).  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