{"id":53873,"date":"2022-12-25T19:42:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T19:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53873"},"modified":"2022-12-25T19:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T19:43:44","slug":"climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53873","title":{"rendered":"Human nature = human mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Human nature and all its complexities provide human beings with one of this world&#8217;s greatest mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re coming out of a cold snap that enveloped much of North Texas. We awoke this morning to 20-something-degree temperatures, but it has &#8220;warmed&#8221; up to the mid-40s. Tomorrow it&#8217;ll be even warmer.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery is this: Why do we humans bitch when it gets too cold and then bitch during the Dog Days of Summer (no pun intended) when it gets too hot?<\/p>\n<p>Do you want more irony? Suppose we lived in an area where the climate is perfect every single day of the year. By &#8220;perfect&#8221; I mean 72 degrees, with no wind and low humidity; it would rain for about two hours every third or fourth day.<\/p>\n<p>The irony of that circumstance is that we would complain about the weather &#8220;never changing.&#8221; That we would want more variety. That we would welcome a snowstorm or a heat wave &#8230; just to make life interesting.<\/p>\n<p>We human beings. We&#8217;re all so fickle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human nature and all its complexities provide human beings with one of this world&#8217;s greatest mysteries. We&#8217;re coming out of a cold snap that enveloped much of North Texas. We awoke this morning to 20-something-degree temperatures, but it has &#8220;warmed&#8221; up to the mid-40s. Tomorrow it&#8217;ll be even warmer. The mystery is this: Why do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Human nature = human mystery<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9004,7381],"class_list":["post-53873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-climate","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53875,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53873\/revisions\/53875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}