{"id":6320,"date":"2013-05-31T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6320"},"modified":"2013-05-31T10:02:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:02:28","slug":"but-its-a-dry-heat-a-hellishly-dry-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/but-its-a-dry-heat-a-hellishly-dry-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"But it&rsquo;s a dry heat &hellip; a hellishly dry heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out these headlines from today\u2019s Albuquerque Journal, scattered among the day\u2019s trivialities and ads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2013\/05\/31\/news\/091-inches.html\">0.91 inches of rain in 8 months | ABQ Journal<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/author\/jfleck\">John Fleck<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Drought watch: no improvement in New Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Pecos fire rips through 500 acres<\/li>\n<li>Fire danger closes Sandia Mountains<\/li>\n<li>Magdalena R.D. fire restrictions to begin<\/li>\n<li>Starving cattle find new home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and, paradoxically,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snowstorm closes I-70 west of Denver (444 miles north of Abq)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And we end with gallows humor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2013\/05\/30\/blogs\/nm-science\/drought-watch-quote-of-the-month.html\">\u00bb Drought watch: quotes of the month | ABQ Journal<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffff00\">\u201cI\u2019m worried that the dirt\u2019s gonna catch fire.\u201d<\/font> <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Adrian Oglesby, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District board member <\/p>\n<p><em>update<\/em>: No sooner posted than we have a second contender: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s forgotten how to rain down here.\u201d Phil King, New Mexico State University\/Elephant Butte Irrigation District hydrologist<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2013\/05\/30\/blogs\/nm-science\/drought-watch-quote-of-the-month.html\">\u00bb Drought watch: quotes of the month | ABQ Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out these headlines from today\u2019s Albuquerque Journal, scattered among the day\u2019s trivialities and ads: 0.91 inches of rain in 8 months | ABQ Journal By John Fleck Drought watch: no improvement in New Mexico Pecos fire rips through 500 acres Fire danger closes Sandia Mountains Magdalena R.D. fire restrictions to begin Starving cattle find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/but-its-a-dry-heat-a-hellishly-dry-heat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">But it&rsquo;s a dry heat &hellip; a hellishly dry heat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}