
{"id":11196,"date":"2010-06-30T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T21:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2010-06-30T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T21:11:29","slug":"the-language-of-summer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/06\/30\/the-language-of-summer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s summer. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all melted a bit. The dog pants more. The pace is a summer pace and the language is a summer language.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an open ear and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll notice more stories than usual. With travel more likely to include some adventure, people are eager to share itineraries and, later, recollections.<\/p>\n<p>The words we use and how we string them together has modulated in accordance with the season as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Firefly\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153firecracker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d enter the mix. Usage of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pool\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is more often a reference to the place in which one takes a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dip\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rather than billiards or betting.<\/p>\n<p>We talk more of waves too \u00e2\u20ac\u201c catching them and the relentlessness of the heat. As I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned before, my summertalk quirk is not to volunteer that it sure is hot until early August. To do so, I feel, is to surrender far too early. That said, of late it has indeed been quite warm.<\/p>\n<p>I like the way the herd shifts in the summer \u00e2\u20ac\u201c gathering in clumps of assorted friends and family all over the map, some heading to the hills to escape the heat, some soaking it up on the hot sands and some just staying put and contentedly so. As noted in the essay below, in various spots about town temporary societies spring up around swimming holes both natural and chlorinated. <\/p>\n<p>This month kicks off with at least hope of cooler weather, which will be welcome next Sunday when citizens of Carrboro take to Weaver Street for the annual very-short Fourth of July parade. What follows the community stroll to Town Hall is a gathering about as hometown as it gets. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a special pullout guide to the day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s festivities in this issue of MILL. Enjoy yourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s summer. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all melted a bit. The dog pants more. The pace is a summer pace and the language is a summer language.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an open ear and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll notice more stories than usual. With travel more likely to include some adventure, people are eager to share itineraries and, later, recollections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11246,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions\/11246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}