{"id":3564,"date":"2010-08-21T17:10:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T23:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2010-08-21T17:10:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T23:10:39","slug":"beware-the-doldrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=3564","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Doldrums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> dol\u00c2\u00b7drums<br \/>\nPronunciation: \\?d?l-dr?mz, ?d\u00c3\u00a4l-, ?do?l-\\<br \/>\nFunction: noun plural<br \/>\nEtymology: probably akin to Old English dol foolish<br \/>\nDate: 1811<\/p>\n<p>1 : a spell of listlessness or despondency<br \/>\n2 often capitalized : a part of the ocean near the equator abounding in calms, squalls, and light shifting winds<br \/>\n3 : a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or slump<\/p>\n<p>I think that just about covers it.  Listlessness, inactivity, slump.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a hot weather creature.  I do not thrive in hot weather.  I would never want to live in Arizona.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really want to go anywhere or do anything.  I&#8217;m happy to sit in my air conditioned house and read a book.  How about you?  How do you cope with the summer doldrums? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dol\u00c2\u00b7drums Pronunciation: \\?d?l-dr?mz, ?d\u00c3\u00a4l-, ?do?l-\\ Function: noun plural Etymology: probably akin to Old English dol foolish Date: 1811 1 : a spell of listlessness or despondency 2 often capitalized : a part of the ocean near the equator abounding in calms, squalls, and light shifting winds 3 : a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}