{"id":326,"date":"2011-07-15T17:29:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T01:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=326"},"modified":"2011-07-15T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T01:29:16","slug":"summer-in-alaska-is-intoxicating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Summer in Alaska is Intoxicating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wpid-IMG_0069-2011-07-15-17-29.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_0069-2011-07-15-17-29.jpg\" width=\"324\" height=\"432\" \/><br \/>\nBike path near University Lake<\/p>\n<p>When we arrived in Anchorage last summer, one of the sales people we met stated the summers here make you forget about winter.  I enjoy winter, but I now understand the sentiment &#8211; the long, dark winter is the price we pay  for summer like this.<\/p>\n<p>A summer filled with extended daylight, mild temperatures and little to no humidity.  After 35 years in the midwest with hot, sticky weather, this is amazing. <\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rain, but that only makes it better &#8211; after the rain, the world smells amazing.  The rain and daylight bring lush greenness, chirping birds and wildflowers.<\/p>\n<p>Today it was impossible to stay inside &#8211; during our bike ride we enjoyed the warmth of the sun, a light breeze and the beautiful scenery filled with honeysuckle, daisies, poppies, wild geraniums and fireweed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike path near University Lake When we arrived in Anchorage last summer, one of the sales people we met stated the summers here make you forget about winter. I enjoy winter, but I now understand the sentiment &#8211; the long, dark winter is the price we pay for summer like this. A summer filled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}