{"id":28757,"date":"2012-07-03T06:49:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T11:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28757"},"modified":"2012-07-03T06:49:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T11:49:49","slug":"things-im-supposed-to-love-but-cant-stand-stinking-tropical-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28757","title":{"rendered":"Things I’m Supposed To Love But Can’t Stand: Stinking Tropical Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe it’s all the Beach Boys songs that are such a part of our shared cultural heritage.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s the residual effects of the American school system’s three months off in the summer.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s Madison Avenue’s effect on the cultural zeitgeist.<\/p>\n

But Americans are supposed to love summer.<\/p>\n

To Americans, summer is <\/em>fun; barbecues, baseball, boating at the lake, fun fun fun in Daddy’s T-bird…<\/p>\n

…and, fact is, I like all that.<\/p>\n

But for most Americans, summer looks a lot more like this…<\/p>\n

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…with, on weeks like this, a heaping helping of this:<\/p>\n

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Don’t get me wrong. \u00a0I love summer – provided I can be violently physically active, preferably biking (with its built-in breeze).<\/p>\n

But I’m:<\/span><\/p>\n