{"id":48042,"date":"2021-05-22T05:21:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T02:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=48042"},"modified":"2021-05-22T05:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T02:21:16","slug":"the-genial-climate-peps-the-old-man-up-tremendously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/05\/22\/the-genial-climate-peps-the-old-man-up-tremendously\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230; the genial climate peps the old man up tremendously&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without the 1930s U.S. summer heatwaves, as well as the wintertime 24-hour 87-degree steam-heat being pumped into 66 College St., would Lovecraft have lived even as long as he did?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/heat-wave-index-usa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/heat-wave-index-usa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48045\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hotter it gets, the more energy I seem to have &mdash; mental and physical alike. I perspire freely, but am comfortable for all that. I can relish temperatures of 97\u00b0 and 98\u00b0, and never want it cooler than 80\u00b0.&#8221; &#8220;I can&#8217;t steer my finger-muscles when it&#8217;s much under 70\u00b0.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems 1930 was a special shock to the nation because of its duration and because it was the first big leap up. 1931 was a repeat. 1932 and 1933 appear to have been modestly high but not brutal. Then a huge spike in 1934, followed by a more average 1935, then &#8220;Cthulhu is rising!&#8221;-scale brutal in 1936. But that is nationally. It would be interesting to compile a reliable and more precise &#8220;heatwaves where Lovecraft was&#8221; timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without the 1930s U.S. summer heatwaves, as well as the wintertime 24-hour 87-degree steam-heat being pumped into 66 College St., &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/05\/22\/the-genial-climate-peps-the-old-man-up-tremendously\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}