{"id":14266,"date":"2026-03-28T10:16:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14266"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:16:49","slug":"the-disadvantage-of-warmer-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14266","title":{"rendered":"The Disadvantage Of Warmer Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up in my den idling away the precious minutes of my life sitting at my computer desk when I hear a knock at my front door. I get up from my chair and look out the window behind the monitor. Down at street level I see some dressed men walking past my house. This looks familiar. <em>Clue one<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Early mornings I leave my front door open and the screen door locked to allow some morning sunlight into the living room. As I walk down the stairs I observe a well dressed man standing outside wearing the sort of pasted on smile I have seen many times before. I note that he is holding some brochures in one hand. <em>Clue two<\/em>. Pretty sure I know what&#8217;s coming. <em>No&#8230;you&#8217;re not a salesman&#8230;exactly&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yes?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Good morning sir. Are you ready to experience Jesus&#8217; promise for eternal life?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m not a believer. This conversation is over.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Proselytizer walks off, no further trying, facial expression totally unchanged. I begin to wonder if I&#8217;ve just spoken with some new kind of ambulatory bot. Maybe it was the pride flag hanging off my porch. Or my long hair and the tie dye t-shirt I was wearing. Or my face just then. I have often wondered what my resting face looks like after hours staring into a computer monitor.<\/p>\n<p><em>First proselytizers of the season&#8230;start of spring was a few days ago wasn&#8217;t it&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I go back upstairs. As I walk back into my den I begin regretting that I didn&#8217;t thank the man for getting me away from the darn computer, even if it was just momentarily. I still have to do my taxes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m up in my den idling away the precious minutes of my life sitting at my computer desk when I hear a knock at my front door. I get up from my chair and look out the window behind the monitor. Down at street level I see some dressed men walking past my house. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-14266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-life-in-the-big-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14267,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14266\/revisions\/14267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}