{"id":347,"date":"2005-01-25T12:13:20","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T02:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2005-01-25T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T02:13:20","slug":"another-hot-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/25\/another-hot-day\/","title":{"rendered":"another hot day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; it&#8217;s nearly 1pm and it&#8217;s 32 degrees. It&#8217;s <b>warm<\/b> &#8211; probably feels like that because it&#8217;s been about 30 degrees since i started working. It&#8217;s a few degrees colder in the office (which is good).<\/p>\n<p>public holiday tomorrow, which is good. Although if we should have a holiday for what is essentially Invasion Day is a bit undecided. Back in the 80s and 90s we would have had this debate &#8211; but Australian society has headed towards the lunatic right and seems incapable of proper thought, argument and debate. It also okay with human rights violations, torture and the imprisonment of children.<\/p>\n<p>As we increasingly move towards an education system that&#8217;s based on ability to pay, not academic ability &#8211; i don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a time for celebrating Australia as it is.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be with friends tomorrow, enjoying some time together, as we are fond to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; it&#8217;s nearly 1pm and it&#8217;s 32 degrees. It&#8217;s warm &#8211; probably feels like that because it&#8217;s been about 30 degrees since i started working. It&#8217;s a few degrees colder in the office (which is good). public holiday tomorrow, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/25\/another-hot-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-5B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":964,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/twitter-updates-for-2007-12-31\/","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":0},"title":"Twitter Updates for 2007-12-31","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-12-31","format":false,"excerpt":"fucking cancelled trains # melbourne public transport sucks # oh my its so hot even in air con # still hot # at blvd in city # oka... although understaffed at bar # new yea and bon jovi # 27-37 tomorrow # that's degrees C # fucking cunts of public\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Twitter&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Twitter","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/from-twitter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4510,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/blackbird-boots\/","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":1},"title":"Black(bird) boots!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2019-12-12","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, after the half false start of not having RAM so really not being able to do much (yeah yeah, I hear you - I'm weak for not just running Linux in L3), my RAM arrived today. 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