{"id":2441,"date":"2013-03-24T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2013-03-24T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T18:54:47","slug":"beware-what-you-wish-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/beware-what-you-wish-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware, what you wish for."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by an oft repeated sentiment wishing for warmer weather, tweeted by a Twitter companion {I don&#8217;t really like the terms following \/ follower}. The tweet, by @marlo_maybe read, \u201c<strong><em>I swear that I won&#8217;t complain about summer heat ever again. This snow shit is for the birds.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While undergoing military service during the Rhodesian counter-insurgency war I had occasion to visit the Zambezi Valley.\u00a0 On one particular day, written vivid within a memory of misery, the temperature reached 47\u00b0C.\u00a0 {For those still trapped beneath the tyranny of Imperial measurements, that\u2019s closer to 117\u00b0F than 116\u00b0F.}\u00a0 No problem, I hear you say \u2013 just go indoors into the air-conditioning.\u00a0 If we could have, we would have\u2026\u00a0 Not only was there no indoors in our camps, there was no air-conditioning either.\u00a0 All we could do to relieve the heat was lay beneath tents with all sides raised in hope of some breeze.\u00a0 More than a few succumbed to heatstroke and had to be trucked out.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever heard the expression, \u201cOnly mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun\u201d, the Zambezi Valley might be where it originated.<\/p>\n<p>So, the next time you make a fervent wish to change your circumstances, make sure you add in a caveat \u2013 it might protect you from yourself\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by an oft repeated sentiment wishing for warmer weather, tweeted by a Twitter companion {I don&#8217;t really like the terms following \/ follower}. The tweet, by @marlo_maybe read, \u201cI swear that I won&#8217;t complain about summer heat ever again. This snow shit is for the birds.\u201d While undergoing military service during the Rhodesian counter-insurgency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}