{"id":34193,"date":"2025-08-16T07:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34193"},"modified":"2025-08-16T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:30:56","slug":"unprecedented-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/16\/unprecedented-then\/","title":{"rendered":"UNPRECEDENTED!!!! Then"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline of the weather video says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozarksfirst.com\/video\/heatwave-bringing-the-hottest-temperatures-in-years\/10987795\/\" target=\"_new\">Heatwave bringing the hottest temperatures in years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How many years?  A century?  Living memory?  A quarter century (which is longer than living memory for most journalists, by the way)?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/twoyearstemperatures.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Two years.  Which means it did not get this hot last year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the reverse Wobegon effect (where all the kids are above average).  Everything must be the mostest, the extremist, the most estest, in history, especially in the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline of the weather video says Heatwave bringing the hottest temperatures in years. How many years? A century? Living memory? A quarter century (which is longer than living memory for most journalists, by the way)? Two years. Which means it did not get this hot last year. It&#8217;s the reverse Wobegon effect (where all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34194,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193\/revisions\/34194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}