{"id":3432,"date":"2005-07-22T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2005-07-22T17:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/22\/okaywho-washed-their-car\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:25:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:25:19","slug":"okaywho-washed-their-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/22\/okaywho-washed-their-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay&#8230;who washed their car?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7922,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wunderground.com\\\/US\\\/WA\\\/Seattle.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wunderground.com\\\/US\\\/WA\\\/Seattle.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7923,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.biteofseattle.com\\\/home\\\/default.aspx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100110134849\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.biteofseattle.com:80\\\/home\\\/default.aspx&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 02:47:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6417,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.vogueseattle.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;},{&quot;id&quot;:7924,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/27704096&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310031207\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/27704096&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/27704096&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 18:10:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>For the past week, we&#8217;ve had gorgeous high-70&#8217;s to low-80&#8217;s sunshine throughout Seattle, with more predicted through the weekend and on into next week.<\/p>\n<p>So how come I woke up to grey skies, rain, and &#8220;possible thunderstorms,&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/US\/WA\/Seattle.html\" title=\"Weather Underground: Seattle, Washington (98101) Forecast\">Weather Underground<\/a>? Some fool must have gotten the urge to wash his car yesterday. <em>Everybody<\/em> knows that that&#8217;s the surest way to bring on a sudden burst of rain!<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well&#8230;I&#8217;ll just keep my fingers crossed for the weekend. This weekend&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biteofseattle.com\/home\/default.aspx\" title=\"Bite of Seattle\">Bite of Seattle<\/a> food festival, so I&#8217;ll likely be wandering around the Seattle Center for much of the weekend, camera in hand. As long as nothing unexpected crops up, I should be out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogueseattle.com\/\" title=\"The Vogue\">the Vogue<\/a> on Saturday night, too &#8212; things have been so busy lately that I haven&#8217;t been able to get out dancing as often as I like, but I need to get <em>some<\/em> bouncing in when I can.<\/p>\n<p>And to close (for the moment, at least), a shot I took yesterday at Westlake Plaza of people camped out in the sun on their lunch break.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/27704096\/\" title=\"Lunchtime, Westlake Plaza, Seattle, WA\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/27704096\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos22.flickr.com\/27704096_8cfe9c6e59.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"265\" alt=\"Lunchtime, Westlake Plaza, Seattle, WA\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past week, we&#8217;ve had gorgeous high-70&#8217;s to low-80&#8217;s sunshine throughout Seattle, with more predicted through the weekend and on into next week. So how come I woke up to grey skies, rain, and &#8216;possible thunderstorms,&#8217; according to Weather Underground?<\/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-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","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=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}