{"id":1366,"date":"2006-08-03T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T18:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/its_so_hot_that_the_only_thing_i_can_do_is_complain.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:48:29","slug":"its_so_hot_that_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/its_so_hot_that_1.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s So Hot That The Only Thing I Can Do Is Complain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weather porn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/03\/nyregion\/03heat.html?ex=1312257600&#038;en=679732eb4f3fac62&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">day two<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But as the day dragged on in a hazy trance, the heat made even the seconds pass by in a sluggish torpor: it was a morning and night of a million little miseries, with just as many ways to get through them.<\/p>\n<p>Many seats in New York City summer school sessions were vacant after the city&#8217;s announcement that students could stay home. Office workers seeking a cigarette break faced a one-two punch of heat and humidity if they dared venture from cooled lobbies. Observant Jews wrestled with how to deal with a day of fasting that began last night &#8212; and prohibits the drinking of water. At Rikers Island, running under generator power, guards, inmates and visitors all sweated.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Creeping down 58th Street in Woodside, Queens, in his white Ford van, Anthony Ramirez, 35, tilted his head back for a long gulp, downing the last of a bottle of Gatorade. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to need another one soon,&#8221; he said, looking ahead at the traffic, barely moving.<\/p>\n<p>Sweat dripped down the sides of his face, stained the front of his T-shirt and made his arms look as if they had been dunked in a bucket of water. Hot water. &#8220;I feel like the devil&#8217;s in here,&#8221; he said, &#8220;It&#8217;s murder, I&#8217;m telling you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What it was, really, inside his van, was 111 degrees, according to a thermometer that toured some of the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hottest locations yesterday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather porn, day two: But as the day dragged on in a hazy trance, the heat made even the seconds pass by in a sluggish torpor: it was a morning and night of a million little miseries, with just as many ways to get through them. Many seats in New York City summer school sessions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}