{"id":4593,"date":"2011-07-29T09:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=4593"},"modified":"2011-07-29T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T13:02:26","slug":"dog-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/07\/dog-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4594\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/milo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/milo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"milo\" width=\"125\" height=\"104\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/milo.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/milo-96x80.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milo<\/figcaption><\/figure>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always something bittersweet about August.<br \/>\nAcross our town, state and nation, children will return to school to crack open (perhaps not-so) fresh textbooks and dust off their knowledge of multiplication tables and sentence diagrams. <!--more-->University students will flood back to towns that have perhaps felt a bit too relaxed these past couple months in cars overloaded by all that a dorm room outfit might need, and more. Elected officials will start a new session with yet-unsullied plans for the year, and football fans will revel in the start of the college and NFL seasons.<br \/>\nBut before school days and meetings and rush parties commence, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all enjoy these last few weeks of summer. Yes, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll continue to have sweltering heat well into September (Mother Nature doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t keep a calendar and the Dog Days are in full swing), but as the second half of the month moves closer, the mindset is sure to change as datebooks become increasingly crowded and afternoons are far too busy for a trip to the pool.<br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to keep that busy feeling from creeping in well before it should \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but it can be done. For my money, summer is the best time of year. Enjoy these last (really more than) few lazy weeks and soak it up while you can. Head up to Hillsborough for Last Fridays, or visit the Forest Theater for a Paperhand Puppet performance. Sip on a summer beer, and prepare a seasonal meal to go with it \u00e2\u20ac\u201c because come fall, the extra time seems to slip away as quickly as a summer tan fades.<br \/>\n <em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Susan Dickson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always something bittersweet about August. Across our town, state and nation, children will return to school to crack open (perhaps not-so) fresh textbooks and dust off their knowledge of multiplication tables and sentence diagrams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}