{"id":1469,"date":"2003-07-20T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/20\/turn-down-the-heat\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:36:03","slug":"turn-down-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/20\/turn-down-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn down the heat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14102,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.biteofseattle.com\\\/home&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230110015712\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.biteofseattle.com\\\/home&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 17:18:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 12:46:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 09:48:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:38:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:38:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14103,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/djwudi.typepad.com\\\/eclecticism\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/graphics\\\/biteofseattle-fountain.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040126064402\\\/http:\\\/\\\/djwudi.typepad.com:80\\\/eclecticism\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/graphics\\\/biteofseattle-fountain.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 17:18:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 07:34:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 07:34:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14088,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/disney.go.com\\\/disneypictures\\\/pirates&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20131009005708\\\/http:\\\/\\\/disney.go.com\\\/disneypictures\\\/pirates\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 17:17:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 07:34:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 07:34:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14104,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pacificplaceseattle.com\\\/home.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pacificplaceseattle.com\\\/home.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14105,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.seattlecenter.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308085113\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.seattlecenter.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 17:18:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 09:48:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:38:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:38:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14106,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/djwudi.typepad.com\\\/eclecticism\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/graphics\\\/biteofseattle-field.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040126063713\\\/http:\\\/\\\/djwudi.typepad.com:80\\\/eclecticism\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/graphics\\\/biteofseattle-field.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 17:18:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 07:34:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 07:34:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14107,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theretros.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>On the bright side, the weather has been absolutely <em>gorgeous<\/em> all this weekend. On the downside, I haven&#8217;t wanted to leave the apartment &#8212; once temperatures hit the mid-80&#8217;s to 90&#8217;s, I&#8217;m quite content to lay in a near-comatose puddle on my bed. ;) However, this being the weekend for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biteofseattle.com\/home\/\" title=\"Bite of Seattle\">Bite of Seattle<\/a> food festival, I couldn&#8217;t very well stay indoors in the shade <em>all<\/em> weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/graphics\/biteofseattle-fountain.html\" title=\"The Seattle Center fountain\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Seattle Center fountain\" src=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/graphics\/biteofseattle-fountain-thumb.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prairie had come in to town to visit for the weekend, so Saturday morning we got up around 11, wandered downtown to see <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/disneypictures\/pirates\/\" title=\"Pirates of the Caribbean\">Pirates of the Caribbean<\/a> (which rocked &#8212; more on that later, most likely), then walked from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificplaceseattle.com\/home.html\" title=\"Pacific Place - the Ultimate Shopping Experience\">Temple of Avarice<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlecenter.com\/\" title=\"Seattle Center - What a Great Place!\">Seattle Center<\/a> to wander around the Bite for a while. As I mentioned above, it was gorgeous weather, so Seattle was out in full force. Lots of people, and at times a little overcrowded (does nobody ever pay attention to where they are walking at these things?), but aside from that, not bad at all. I even went out and soaked myself in the fountain &#8212; and boy, did that make the sun more bearable for the rest of the afternoon!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/graphics\/biteofseattle-field.html\" title=\"The main field at Seattle Center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The main field at Seattle Center\" src=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/graphics\/biteofseattle-field-thumb.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After grabbing some food and finding a seat in the shade to eat, we each grabbed an ice cream cone, and sat down at one of the music stages to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theretros.com\/\" title=\"The Retros - the West Coast's premier 80's band\">The Retros<\/a> play &#8212; if the name hasn&#8217;t given it away already, they specialize in 80&#8217;s pop, and are a blast to see. We finished our ice cream about the same time they finished their set, and, deciding that we didn&#8217;t really want to risk sunburn any more than we already had, we hopped on the monorail and came back to the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the weekend was spent mostly here at the apartment, resting and trying to avoid the heat as much as possible. Movies were watched, laundry was done, and not much else. Which, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, makes for a perfect weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the downside, I haven&#8217;t wanted to leave the apartment \u2014 once temperatures hit the mid-80&#8217;s to 90&#8217;s, I&#8217;m quite content to lay in a near-comatose puddle on my bed. ;) However, this being the weekend for the Bite of Seattle food festival, I couldn&#8217;t very well stay indoors in the shade all weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}