{"id":1414,"date":"2021-07-11T22:56:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T05:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2021-07-11T22:56:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T05:56:35","slug":"weekend-under-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2021\/07\/11\/weekend-under-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Under Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AEG-sponged-cloud-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AEG-sponged-cloud-banner.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AEG-sponged-cloud-banner-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AEG-sponged-cloud-banner-768x162.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Is it time to add another banner?  I think it is!  This isn&#8217;t recent, but I like the texture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a good day to wear a jacket here in San Francisco, but just two and a half hours east where my parents live, it was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.  <strong>It was 107 there yesterday.<\/strong>  The fact that there could be <strong>a fifty degree difference<\/strong> over such a short distance is <em>amazing<\/em>.  <em>I am grateful that the difference is in my favor. <\/em> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-pink-color\">Hooray for the cooling waters of the Pacific!  Hooray for the insulation of San Francisco Bay!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While my photographic plans today were foiled (they required direct sunlight from the east prior to 11am), I did travel to the eastern edge of town after lunch, and so enjoyed having a shadow for a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City still feels&#8230; <em>off<\/em>.  Sleeping Beauty isn&#8217;t awake yet, and the sounds and sights remain muted.  It is lively in spots &#8211; Japan Center&#8217;s Kinokuniya Building was HOPPING at 11am! &#8211; but then I can walk blocks without encountering another human.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some favorite places are still boarded up.  Paper covers too many windows.  There are still holes in our urban fabric, and a sad sense that even more people are suffering than usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend has admitted that she dreads full re-opening and what passed for normal, because &#8220;normal&#8221; was too frantic for her, involved too many obligations and interactions that didn&#8217;t really suit her.  It was an unexpected insight from someone who had previously just avoided the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth thinking about: what the smaller impacts to daily life are that manifest along the edges of this still-unfolding tragedy which we might learn from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\"><em>(Aristotle described tragedies as being caused not by intentional villainy, but by a flaw in the character of the hero-protagonists.  (See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/hamartia\">explanation of Hamartia in Brittanica<\/a>.) There certainly are a lot of human flaws on display during this pandemic!)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We could all benefit from living more thoughtful lives!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a good day to wear a jacket here in San Francisco, but just two and a half hours east where my parents live, it was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It was 107 there yesterday. The fact that there could be a fifty degree difference over such a short distance is amazing. I am &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2021\/07\/11\/weekend-under-clouds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend Under Clouds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,36],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-san-francisco","tag-pandemic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}