{"id":914,"date":"2012-03-26T20:51:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T02:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2012-03-26T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T02:51:53","slug":"everyone-knows-its-windy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Knows It&#8217;s Windy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a windy day in the area, today. The forecast called for gusts up to 55mph, and I have no doubt that that speed was reached. I&#8217;m still hearing occasional gusty winds now, around 9pm. There&#8217;s a building being constructed in the lot next to the building I work in, and tremendous amounts of dust were being picked up this afternoon; it was actually limiting visibility.<\/p>\n<p>I went out at lunch to see if I could fly my kite &#8211; I&#8217;ve got a Skynasaur F-36 sport kite that I haven&#8217;t flown in more than a decade. The winds were so strong that the string almost cut my fingers, and one of the two lines snapped before the kite was up 30 feet. I decided that I&#8217;d been given a sign that kite flying was not in the cards for today.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to try again on a day when the wind isn&#8217;t quite so strong. I&#8217;ll also have to learn how to adjust the harness on the kite; I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;s set up properly, because it tried to head upwind past my head the moment it got into the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a windy day in the area, today. The forecast called for gusts up to 55mph, and I have no doubt that that speed was reached. I&#8217;m still hearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-fun-stuff","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}