{"id":1998,"date":"2016-07-25T18:53:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T01:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2016-07-26T04:44:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T11:44:57","slug":"chasing-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"Catching the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150124.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150124.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1999\" \/><\/a>Chased a thunderstorm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t live in our part of Texas, you might not know we\u2019ve had multiple triple-digit days with no relief in sight.<\/p>\n<p>So about 1:00 yesterday, Charlotte and I were walking out of a restaurant when we noticed a nice thunderhead in the east.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo bad,\u201d said my wife (our storms come from the west).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s catch it,\u201d said I.<\/p>\n<p>We did\u2014on FM 1151 just west of Claude.<\/p>\n<p>For a moment we wondered if it had been a good idea\u2014lots of thunder, lightning, high winds and sheets of rain so heavy visibility was reduced to maybe 100 feet. Water was starting to pool on the road, and I could feel us start to hydroplane.<\/p>\n<p>We looked at each other.<\/p>\n<p>And giggled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chased a thunderstorm yesterday. If you don\u2019t live in our part of Texas, you might not know we\u2019ve had multiple triple-digit days with no relief in sight. So about 1:00 yesterday, Charlotte and I were walking out of a restaurant when we noticed a nice thunderhead in the east. \u201cToo bad,\u201d said my wife (our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}