{"id":1633,"date":"2009-09-22T06:57:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T10:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2009-09-22T06:57:13","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T10:57:13","slug":"see-ya-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/09\/22\/see-ya-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"See Ya, Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the last day of summer, with the autumnal equinox occurring at 21:18 UTC tonight (which would be about 5:18 PM EDT).  It&#8217;s the Festival of Dionysus, so I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m supposed to go out and have an orgy or sacrifice a chicken or something.  I cooked a couple of chickens for the dogs on Sunday, so I guess that&#8217;ll have to do (we&#8217;re usually too tired after work to get a proper orgy going &#8211; that and we don&#8217;t really have any friends that we&#8217;re quite that close with).  Either way, now it&#8217;s gonna start to get dark <strong><em>really<\/em><\/strong> early (by the time DST ends on November 1st, sunset will be before 5:00 where I live).  Fall is my favorite season (except for the getting dark too damn early part).  I really love the end of the heat and humidity, the cool, crisp days, and the cold bug-killing nights.  Nothing&#8217;s more beautiful than hills and valleys colored orange, red, and gold beneath a deep blue fall sky (though seeing them with a fresh dusting of snow comes pretty close).  I know there are people who hate the cold and snow, but I wouldn&#8217;t give up the change of seasons for anything (though feel free to try me; the bidding starts at $1 million).<\/p>\n<p>According to the Census Bureau, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/09\/one_in_10_central_new_yorkers.html\">10.3% of Central New Yorkers are without health insurance<\/a>.  That sounds bad, until you see the NY State rate is over 13%, and the national average is 15.5% (thanks to places like Texas, where 1 out of 4 Texans are SOL &#8211; even less, if you don&#8217;t count their 155,000 or so prisoners).  You would think that would constitute a form of &#8220;rationing,&#8221; but I guess the definition of rationing is having to wait to have that mole removed from your ass so somebody with a burst appendix can go to the front of the line, rather than keeping the line short by just flat out kicking people out of it.    <\/p>\n<p>Ah well, time to get day two of the march to the weekend started.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s the last day of summer, with the autumnal equinox occurring at 21:18 UTC tonight (which would be about 5:18 PM EDT). It&#8217;s the Festival of Dionysus, so I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m supposed to go out and have an orgy or sacrifice a chicken or something. I cooked a couple of chickens for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}