{"id":104,"date":"2005-06-09T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/06\/09\/big-bang-boom\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T10:39:54","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T14:39:54","slug":"big-bang-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/06\/09\/big-bang-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bang Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2148'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I got home from work last night and immediately turned on the air-conditioning. After one of the coldest May&#8217;s on record, we just jumped right into summer once June began. It&#8217;s been in the upper 80s, hazy, hot and humid since I got back from Chicago (minus one gloriously cool day). <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Later in the evening, after the white noise caused by the air-conditioning lulled me to sleep in my climate controlled environment, I was rudely awakened precisely at 2:10AM when the most intense boom of thunder jolted me* from the bed. Seriously, that&nbsp; sole clap of thunder was unlike any I&#8217;d heard in years. As I laid there fully awake, I was anticipating some further pyrotechnics. I mean, how could something that strong not be followed by more?<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Alas, all I could hear was heavy rain (even over the AC). It took be another 30 minutes to fall asleep (partially because I have trouble falling asleep after being woken up, but also because, like a little boy, I was hoping for more).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Anyway, today is graduation day at Harvard so the place is hopping with students and family. On the plus side, I get a free lunch out of it. I even wore my finest clothes today (not!) to impress the masses: sneakers, green cargo shorts and a $9 shirt from the Gap. Yep &#8211; mom would be proud.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>*Matt always made fun of me because, like a dog, the second I hear a noise in my sleep I sit right up and start looking around.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got home from work last night and immediately turned on the air-conditioning. After one of the coldest May&#8217;s on record, we just jumped right into summer once June began. It&#8217;s been in the upper 80s, hazy, hot and humid since I got back from Chicago (minus one gloriously cool day). Later in the evening, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}