{"id":17643,"date":"2021-08-09T07:08:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=17643"},"modified":"2021-08-09T07:17:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:17:18","slug":"four-weeks-to-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=17643","title":{"rendered":"Four Weeks to Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am sick of August and Summer: traffic, crowds, humidity, gone-bys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visited the farm stand yesterday.  A couple of born-lucky-in-looks types were carrying a very disabled elderly gentleman into the stand.  Three people, one unable to even stand on his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the born luckies had the nerve to bark at me &#8220;We need a minute&#8221;.  I blasted back &#8220;Am I in your way?&#8221;  She had the good sense to leave with the elderly gent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought it might be nice to pick up wine at Cape Cod Winery.  It was packed.  The parking attendant pointed me to a spot so I could check out the gift shop, but prices are as high as they&#8217;ve ever been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, I picked up a bottle of Barefoot in Mashpee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron did laundry, we changed sheets.  I pulled weeds and made a couple of cold salads.  Day before as well: platter of pita bread, mint and basil, feta, watermelon, cukes, radishes, grapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nice conversation with a woman from Standish about their voucher program for vet fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progress on NEPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sick of August and Summer: traffic, crowds, humidity, gone-bys.Visited the farm stand yesterday. A couple of born-lucky-in-looks types were carrying a very disabled elderly gentleman into the stand. Three people, one unable to even stand on his own.One &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=17643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17646,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions\/17646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}